LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5954, 25 May 1894, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

o (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (per united press association.) Received May 25, at 7 p. .m.] London. May 23. At a meeting of the shareholders in the London Bank of Australia, the chairman said their good customers had returned, and calls had been promptly paid. The sum of L 790,000 had been invested, half a million of ic in consols. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,568,000 quarters. New Zealand Shipping Company's shares, L2 12s 6d. Received May 25, at 0.50 a.m.] London, May 24. Fierce fighting is going on in the Central American Republic of Sau Salvador between the rebels and the Government troops. Three thousand men have been killed since May 15th. Owing to Sir R. Hamilton having accepted a seat on the Irish Financial Commission it is expected Mr Walpole will be British representative at the Ottawa Conference. The Premier, speaking at Birmingham, made a strong attack on Mr Chamberlain, and promised to pass the Welsh Disestablishment. Bill through the House of Commons before dissolving. The Government have refused to lend the Franklin relics to the Hobart Exhibition. Washington, May 24. The Senate, by a majority of 10, negatived a motion to shelve the tariff Bill. St. Petersburg, May 24. The nihilists undermined a house at Smolenski, where it was expected that the Czar would reside during the army manoeuvres. Paris, May 24. M. Bourgeois declined to take the Premiership, and M. Dupuy was summoned to form a Ministry. The Paris newspapers angrily denounce the Anglo-Belgian arrangement respecting equatorial Africa as a blow levelled at French territory in that continent. More competition is now exhibited at the wool sales, and prices are firmer for medium and better sorts.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(per united press ASSOCIATION. J Received May 24, at 7 p.m.] Sydney, May 24. The Gabo lighthouse reports that the steamer Glaucus passed the masts of a ship, with wreckage attached, abreast of the island. It is feared that some disaster has been occasioned by the recent heavy gales in Bass Straits. Adelaide, May 24. The Wesleyan Conference referred the proposal of the New Zealand Conference for the revision of the hymn book to the annual distiict conference for report. Adherence to the principle of direct local veto, without compensation to publicans, was affirmed. The report of the committee upon the basis of union with the Methodist Church was adopted. Among other things recommended as a means of hastening the ULion was that each annual conference should invite other Methodist bodies to join and create a federal council within their own bounds. Received May 25, at 0.50 a.m. Sydney, May 24. Arrived—Rotokino. The Premier states that the accident to the hydro-pneumatic sun at Newcastle was due to a Palliser shell breaking in the gun, and was not attributable to gun or manufacture. Perth, May 24. Sir J. Forrest, Premier, announced in a speech that the Government is to ask Parliament for a million and half to provide railways to the Coolgardie and Murchison goldfields ; also to the Greenbushes tinfield and Coolie goldfield. It has also been resolved to carry out extensive water conservation works in dry districts and establish a land bank with the management entirely separate from Government centrol for the purpose of advancing money to farmers at the lowest possible rates of interest.