LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5208, 15 February 1892, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

(By Electing Tf,lf.c,kai'U —CorvnioiiT.) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (I'EK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received February 14, at 0.10 p.m.] Paris, February i:>. M. tie Freycinet, the Premier, has introduced into the Chamber of Deputies a hill, tho provisions of which are hostile to religious societies, and are to he a prelude to possible .separation of Church and State. St. Petersiiuro, February A Russian squadron will visit Cherbourg in the summer. Lisuon, February 11!. A bomb was exploded in the Spanish Consulate to-day. The windows of the building were shattered, but fortunately no lives were lost. Malta, February l.">. H.M.S. Victoria, which went, ashore near Platea, on the Greek coast, and subsequently floated oil', has arrived here. Nl'.w York, February i:>. Typhus fever has .appeared amongst a batch of Jewish emigrants forwarded here fro in Odessa by Baron Hirsch. Eightyone cases are already in the hospital. London. February II?. Sir W. V. Harcourt declined to support the amendment to tho Addross-in-Reply moved by Mr Redmond for an amnesty to political prisoners. 'lhu amendment, which was negatived by a large majority, was supported by under 40 of Gladstone's party. The coai porters have resumed work on the terms existing before the strike. Lord Carrinuton advocates that the London County Council should work the city triimways, and that the employees should be treated well —something like what is done in Sydney. He also urges that the Betterment Act should be applied to all property benefited by municipal improvements. General Booth states that the terms offered in New Zealand for the establishment of his oversea colonies were easier than those of Cape Colony, but the distance barred their acceptance. During tho examination of Mi's liargreaves n the charge of larceny and perjury against Mrs Osborne, she evinced much sympathy with accused, and subsequently visited her in prison. The Earl and Countess of Glasgow and family will probably sail early in March. Mr B. R. Wise, M.L.A. for Sydney South, on behalf of the Pastoral and Financial Association and Geddes and Co., of Sydney, lias arranged with a combination of shipowners and producers to export from Sydney, on special tonus, 6000 carcases of frozen meat weekly. The arrangements will begin about the end of the year. Mr Wise will speak at Slough in support of Lord Carrington s adverse criticisms of the colonial policy of Lord Knutsford, and will at the same time explain the colonial view on Home Rule for Ireland. General Booth on his arrival met with an enthusiastic though rather grotesque welcome. The steamers which went out to meet him were profusely decorated ; hands played, and volleys were lired. There was also much cheering and blessing. Bombs and rockets were also fired, at intervals. Five thousand of his soldiers and a regiment of atnazons escorted the General to the Salvation Hall in Southampton. Colonial stocks arc firmer, owing to the cablegram published that the associated banks in Melbourne are taking up Victoria's treasury bills, which is regarded as an intention to borrow locally. The Miners' Federation in Manchester, representing 175,000 men, has decided to stop work in collieries after 14 days from March 12th, in order to reduce supplies. The coal masters maintain the right to employ free men, and refuse to recede from the position taken up. The Shipping Federation is debating oti the offer made from numbers of their business clients to be allowed to join the Federation with a view of concerted action taken in disputes with unionists. The Economist considers that the issue of Treasury bills indicates impeenniosity, audit is worse than issuing loans, us it creates tho impression that the colonies have no resources, and are simply piling on their floating debt. The Daily IN ews says that although the Capo loan is placed locally the banks will almost be compelled to buy Government stock under the new Bank Act, which permits the issue of notes oil condition of depositing Cape Government bonds. Received February 15, at I a.m.] London, February l.'i. Tho Privy Council has dismissed, with costs, the appeal in the case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company v. Roberts, late Postmaster-General of Now South Wales, as the nominal defendant for the Government. Tho claim was one against the Government of Now South Wales by the Pacific Company to recover L 11.750 and interest, making in all L 14,1504, for services rendered in conveying mails between Sydney and San Francisco from the 29th November, 1884, to the 2!) th November, 1885. The contention of the Government was that no such contract existed, because it was made subject to the concurrence of the Government of New Zealand, which concurrence was never obtained : and further, that the mails were carried in accordance with the agreement made between New South Wales and New Zealand, and that the plaintiffs were bound by their contract to carry such mails, and were not entitled to recover for work and labor done. At the trial in Sydney the Court decided against the Company, which appealed to the Privy Council, with the result that the judgment of the Court has been upheld.