HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE. NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7212, 17 May 1898, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE. NEWS.

[By Eleotkic Telbgsai'H—Copyright.3 (PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.; Received May 17, at 9.45 a.m. London. May 16. Lord Rosebery visited Mr Gladstone at Hawarden to bid him farewell. Mr G. Collins Levy, Secretary of the Colonial Committee of the British Commission for the Paris Exhibition, advises that 45,000 feet of space will be assigned to the Australasian colonies in the main building, and a supplementary area of 45,000 feet in a building in the Trocadero Gardens. The Colonial Committee approved of the suggestion also for the application for a concession for a colonial restaurant and wine and fruit market. New South Wales supports colonial repre sentation on the Executive Committee. The Rev. D. F. Sandford, formerly Bishop of Tasmania, has been appointed assistant to the Bishop of Durham. Received May 17, at 9.50 a.m. Rome, May 16. It is now stated that the Pope realises the serious results that the connivance of the clericals wfth the aims of the Republicans and Socialists in the Italian revolutionary movement would have, and intends to disavow all connection with the agitation. Six members of the Chamber of Deputies have been arrested. Cairo, May 16. Hews is to hand that an engagement took place at Gedaref, in the Soudan, between friendly natives and a force of Dervishes commanded by Osman Digna. The Dervishes were defeated. Osman was wounded, but managed to escape. Received May 17, at 11.45 a.m., Pekin, May 16. Prince Henry of Prussia, commander of the second German squadron on the China station, was accorded a brilliant reception by the Emperor of Pekin. Received May 17, at 9 55 a.m. Pbetoeia, May 16. President Krnger stated, in the course of a speech at Pretoria, that, if the interpretation of the convention by Judge Kotze, late Chief Justice of the Transvaal, is right, it will mean the opening up of the boundary question, and perhaps drawing the sword against Great Britain. London. May 16. An influential meeting at Cambridge resolved to erect a church at Siota, in the Solomon Islands, to the memory of Bishop Selwyn, also a memorial in the Selwyn College. The Royal Society is organising a third expedition to explore the coral reefs in the Pacific.