SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4655, 30 April 1890, Page 3

SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGES

(BY ELMIBIO Txlmbafh —Coptbiqht.l Spotit. xo Press Association. Beteind April 30, at 0.10 p.m. London April 29. TJjleas SUvln succeeds in making a jjutch he will return to Australia. The fight between Peter Jackson and J. Jj. Sallivan for 15,000 dollara aside will take place in San Francisco on Jnne 3.-d. Mr R likes, Post master-General, has informed the Agents-General that rates on pattern parcels to the colonies will be reduced in May. ___ _ , Virtually the whola of the Victorian loan is paying under discount. In the evidence before the Colonisation Committee, E. XT. C. Braddou, AgentGeneral of Tasmania, stated that the colony was not opposed to receiving emigrants. The Duke of Cambridge will preside at at a meeting of Australian colonists and merchants which is to bB held at People's Palace next month, to consider a resolution In support of colonial federatioD. _ . _ Speaking on federation, E*rl Rosebery said that England should not approach the colonies in the attitude of beggars, and that it was impossible to forca federation on them. He hoped, however, that in the end, federation would be brought about, and that it would be a prelude to the union of the English-speaking race. fitcox&l. April 30, at 0.55 p.m. Lisbon, April 29. Portugal la following the example set by England, and is building gunboats suitable for tha navigation of the Shire and Zambesi rivers. Beblin, April 29. Prince Bismarck will shortly leave on a visit to Scotland. Germany hss offered Its protest to the projected conversion of the Turkish debt. St. Petersburg, April 29. The Russian Press ta commenting on the danger which woold accrne to the Russian Empire through Cbina throwing in her lot with England and lending her assistance In the case of an outbreak of Lisbon, April 29. England and America are insisting npon Portugal referring the Delagoa railway dispute to arbitration. Pabis, April 29. At Lyons arrests have been made of several persons whom the authorities suspected of Intending to take part in a dynamite plot at the labor demonstration on Thursday. Beeeived April 30, ai 2 p.m. London, April 29. Baron de Worms has informed the Western Australian Enabling Committee that it had not been decided to delay the defence works In King George's Sound, but that the colonies would have to defray the cost of armaments.