LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6209, 19 March 1895, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (per united press association.) Received March 19, at 1 a.m. " London, March 18. Obituary Georgina Anne, Dowager Countess of Glasgow. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the posthumous letter of R. L. Stevenson on Samoan affairs, expresses the hope that the Government will be induced to mitigate the rigorous treatment meted out to Mataafa. The liquidator of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has made a call of L 22 10s per share on all contributors who failed to adopt the scheme of reconstruction. Vienna, March 18. The death roll in connection with the explosion in the Trappau coal mine numbered 49. Madrid, March 18. As the outcome of the military officers' riots, the principal feature of which was an attack on two newspaper offices, the Spanish Cabinet has resigned. In Congress the Minister of War spoke in palliation of the action of the military, whereupon .the Press representatives left the gallery in a body as a protest against the Minister's attitude. Subsequently the editors of the local papers interviewed the Ministers on the subject, and threatened that they would not publish a single paper unless they were guaranteed that a repetition of the officers' conduct would not be permitted by the Government. _ Spanish troops suppressed a rising among the natives of Mindanas, one of the Phillipine Islands, but with the loss of 200 men killed and wounded. Capetown, March 18. The King of Swaziland having submitted to Transvaal rule, has been proclaimed paramount chief by the President of the Republic. -, * AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (per united press association.) Received March 18, at 10.30 a;m.] Melbourne, March 18. The Age says that the habit of Adelaide politicians in taking up as subjects for legislation a number of fads only fit for a village debating club seems to have demoralised the minds of public men in the neighboring colony. Mr Kingston's document cannot be perused without some sense of humiliation at the pettiness to which politics may fall in some colonies. The reply consists mainly of a series of recriminations against Victoria. Mr Kingston is just a little disingenuous when he claims that the proposed treaty with New Zealand is not antifederal, since it promotes in some degree intercolonial freetrade, which is the great object of federation. It is understood that New Zealand, for the present at least, will stand out of the federal compact, and complications would evidently ensue were one of the federating colonies to have outside engagements to which the others were not parties. Were both contracting colonies amongst those which agreed to federate the treaty would be harmless, since all minor agreements would be swallowed up in a federal compact. What the position would be with one of the colonies bound by special agreement is not very clear. The Argus remarks, on the same subject, that Mr Kingston did not require to be cunning at fence in dealing with Mr Turner's protest against the treaty. He has gone in for the l much simpler art of stone throwing. The wonder is that our cautious Mr Turner should have been tempted to forget for a moment that he was living in a glass house. There is certainly nothing lofty or promising from a federal standpoint in the provisional treaty. It sets things back and does not advance them, yet if we trace the responsibility to its source the blame really lies with us. Received March 19, at 1 a.m. Sydney, March 18.

Sailed, to-day—Alameda, for San Francisco, via Auckland : Warrimoo, for Vancouver. The Bishop of Salisbury is a passenger by the Warrimoo for Canada. A Commission has been appointed by those interested in the cyanite process to collect evidence as to the use of cyanite prior to the issue of the patent righis. Greenway, agent for the Cassell Gold Recovery Company, who has gone to Auckland, had , several interviews with the directors of the Great Mercury, Kapai, Vermont, and Koatonu Companies on the subject of the process. Melbourne, March 18.

Arrived—Monowai, from Bluff. The receipt of private cable messages from London announcing a rise of about *l\ per cent in wool has created general satisfaction in commercial circles. It is stated the rise will be equivalent to a gain to Australian growers of a million and a half sterling as compared with the prices ruling at the January sales, - Perth, March 18. Governor Robinson has left on a visit to England, having been granted three months leave of absence.