CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4173, 3 July 1875, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, June 24th. T.he Pope, in replying to a deputation of Roman nobles on the anniversary of bis coronation, said that the rumours which were current of his. reconciliation with the Italian •Government were undeserving of the slightest notice. • „. - L i_ The Australian mail via Torres Strait has -been delivered. In the case of the Colonial Bank of Victoria v. Ettershank, an appeal to the Privy •Council, in which plaintiffs sued upon two promissory noteß given by defendant in '.favour of Donald Ferguson and A. btaokpole and discounted by the Bank, the defence ■" was that Burns, manager of the Bank, bad waived the plaintiff's right to recover the amount of the bills. To this it was an- . -swered that the manager had no authority to abandon the claim, nor the Bank to any property that belonged to it. The Court held -.•that the manager had power to bind the Bank, and the verdict returned for det«nd.ant was sustained, and the appeal dismissed • "with costs. The Public Works Bill has passed its eec- • ond reading in the French Assembly. A German note cordially thanks Belgium for theDuchesne investigation, and for its -action, with regard to supplementary penal - legislation.

ADDITIONAL.ENGLISH NEWS. (PROM OUR AUCKLAND COBIiESPONDENT.) London, May 4th.

The Queen held a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace. About 450 presenta- . tions were made. On the 12th Her Majesty gave a garden party. She leaves this evening ."for Balmoral. . . .. Mr Williamson has been commissioned by^ the Queen to execute life-size statues of .marble'of two of the eldest sons of the Prince of Wales. • On the 12lih, the Yorkshire Exhibition of .Arts and Manufacture was opened by the iDukeof Leeds. # . Turee Royal Commissions nave been sitting during the month ; one on army promotion and retirement, one on factories and -sworHahops, >ud the other on railway -cciThe late Mr Mitchell, the member for .Bridgeport, lias bequeathed £240,000 to the "Metropolitan Board of Works. _ The half-yearly report of the Cml Service Association states that the gross profits are at the rate oli £93,000 per annum. Sir Georgi Campbell, a Liberal, has been returned for the Kircaldy Bnrgh by a large majority over Barker. ,'„.,„ , The members of the London School Board ■were entertained at the Mansion House by .*he Lord Mayor. The Board has added 100,000. children to the Metropolitan fachool The monument l;o the Rev. Joseph Hughes, •founder of the Bible Society, was unveiled at Balham fields. Joseph Bulthout, Secretary of the Norwich Building Society, has t>eon sentenced to fifftcea years' penal servitude for embezzlement and forgery. , ~ Eighteen Liverpool gentlemen were brought before a magistrate for participating in a ■ cockfight, aud thirteen were fined £5. During tine removal of the Jndia Office Museum to South Kensington an important discovery was made of valuable old docu-,-ments relating to the early history of the j •Company. Lord Aberdeen presided at a dinner to if ye hundred of the Metropolitan Police at ' •Hildmay Park. In his address he highly .praised the fovce. _ Seven pictures belonging to the Manpy Hall Galley were sold at Christies for £0663. ' , The opening of the Brighton Aquarium.on S'inday is pronounced illegal, and the Court •of Queen's Bench decided, on the appeal in special cases, that the Company aro liable to of £200 for every offence. > .The North Staffordshire coal and ironstone masters have given notice of a ten per cent, reduction, <:o take eflect after to-morrow. Some puddkrs employed in other ironworks, ■who struck without the Banction of the Union, have been lined 303 each. The fines were paid. . . A formidable miners' strike in Belgium .necessitated an appeal to the military. Similar disturbances are reported from many ■districts io France. ' At an amateur running match, over four miles, between Skde and Gibb, at Lilhe Bridge, the former won the raoo in2omin., 2Z2tsecs. Relative to fears of war, a telegram states —for weeks there has been something ominous and indefinite, a breath of some--thing about to happen, which a week ago culminated in a regular scare m Paris, producing a panic in most.of the European

houses. ■•!/-, -c An interview between the German £im-,-peror and the Czar was looked upon as an event fraui-ht with momentous results, de--ciding the 'question of peace or war. The balance of opinion was in favour of the Czar •counselling peace. The Echo declares that the increasing dissension among the Bonapartists causes great anxiety at Chiselhurst. M. Eouher, who is ,»ot popular ■with the country members -party was sent for by the ex-Empress, who desired to know the actual state of affairs •before proceeding to Spain with the Prince. HeiiUot, the editor of l'Univers, has been rfined 4000 francs for libel, and ordered to publish the sentence in five newspapers. " The official returns show that, during the ■past three years, France has imported fewer torses than Germany purchased in France. Judue Campbell has been sent by the Minister of Instruction on.a special mission to America to study the educational system. In Savoy, an entire village was burned by •children playing with matches in a barn. Cardinal Manning assured the German Bishops of the sympathy and concurrence of the English Catholic prieethood with them In the conflict with the State. Several more Bishops have been exiled, imprisoned, or fined for ecclesiastical offences. Riots have occurred in Western Prussia, occasioned by the unpopularity of clerical .appointments. They were suppressed by the military. . . Press prosecutions are increasingly numerous. The Daily Telegraph's correspond•ent has paid a second fine of 50 thalers. The Tiber Commission has reported •against the exclusion of the river from the Clth' Snain thvrc is no progress beyond the *enorted bombardment of Pampeluna and

some miner successes claimed by the Carli3ts. | Military operations are suspended. The Governor of Madrid summoned the Commander-in-chief of the northern army to the capital to confer on the military situation. A fresh change in generals is anticiSome Spanish papers declare the King will shortly open a new campaign. Sir Mutu Coomarar Wang, a Hindu member of the Ceylon Legislative Council, is expected from Europe this month, with a young English bride. , Governor Gregory is encouraging the formation of a Civilization Company, to get land from the Government on easy terms. Lieutenant Legg, R. A., belong-ng to las, mania, has had a narrow escape from a bear, while out nhooting in Trincomalee jungles. His flesh was torn a good deal before two Native bearerb succeeded in driving Bruin The Indian Revenue bears the expeases of the Prince of Wales's visit. Delhi is to be his headquarters.