CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3607, 28 August 1886, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

EisoTßio Tmkgraph—Comtmohx. ] HOME AND~FOREIGN. | (BEUTKR'S TBLKGBAMS.) Received August 27, at 10 p.m. London, August 26. It is stated that the Eight Hon. E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has arranged to confer with the Earl of Iddesleigh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with regard to the French occupation of the New Hebrides, and to arrange the coarse of action to be taken in dealing with the subject. It is expected that the Rev. Mr Austen, of Whitby, will succeed Dr Moorhouse, as Bishop of Melbourne. The Australian and New Zealand mails, via San Francisco, dated Auckland, July 20, were delivered to-day. Console'remain at 101£. New Zealand securities and colonial breadatuffs are unaltered.

The Direotora of the Bank of England have increased the rate of disconnt by 1 per cent. The market rate remains at 2| per cent., or f below the bank rate. The weekly returns of the ; Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L12,200i000, or LIOO,OOO less than last week." The proportion of reserve to liabilities remains at 44 per cent.

Received August 28, at 0.45 a.m. London, August 26.

During the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the motion for the Addresß-in-Reply, Mr Chamberlain urged that the present Government should not be overthrown while the alternative was the appointment of a Ministry which favored the separation of Ireland from Great Britain.

Major-General Sir Red vers Buller has proceeded to Ireland to organise measures for the B\xppreasion of boycotting, and to inquire into the working of the land system. (SPECIAL TO THE PRESS ASSOCIATION) Received August 27, at 7 40 p.m. London, August 26. New South Wales has invited the British Association to meet in Sydney in 1888. It is considered possible that a strong delegation would be willing to go if the terms were generous.

It.has been decided that the ControllerGeneral of Trade Marks will be obliged to register all brands not already registered. Messrs Burgoyne and Co. disclaim any desire to register the. San Vignbr brand, but will require others. Mr Harvey > Inspector of Agents of the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company, has been appointed London Secretary of the Colonial Mutual Life Association.

In reference to the statements made by the Rev. W. Gribble as to the condition of the natives in Western Australia, Bishop Parry, of Perth, admits that there are instances of cruelty and immorality, but declares that Mr Gribble's charges are indiscreet and exaggerated. Received August 28, at 1.25 a.m. London, Auguat 25. The Rev. Mr Austen, of Whitby, who has been offered the Bishopric of Melbourne, haß not yet decided whether to accept the position.

Baron Norton, in a successful speech, declared that the colonists were as badly off as Europeans, almost every inch of their soil being in the possession of a few hundred capitalists. He also said that the farming community in the colonies scarcely gained an existence, whilst in New South Wales there were thousands of the artisan class unemployed. Victoria alone he considered the most thriving of the colonies. The working class opposed the deportion of reoidivistes, but did not care whether the French annexed the New Hebrides or not. The opposition that was raised against that Power doing so was simply on the part of capitalists. The Sydney orangeß are selling at an average of 9a per case. Mr Morris has informed Sir P. C. Owen that Mr Spiers' oontract for the sale of wines at the Exhibition has seriously injured the Colonial wine interest. Sir Graham Berry proposes to forward a further dispatch to Mr E. Stanhope on the New Hebrides question, in which he will urge that France might be inclined to keep the islands. Arguing in defence of such a step, he proposes acquiescence, unless evacuation is at once pressed by England. Owing to quarrels which have arisen between Sir J. Pope Hennessy, Governor of the Mauritius, and Mr Clifford Lloyd, Lieut.-Governor and Colonial Secretary of that island, the Right Hon. E. Stanhope has ordered the latter gentleman to Seychelles Island, a dependency of the Mauritius Government.