CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10033, 26 April 1894, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. London, April 24. Replying to a deputation of mineowners respecting the Labour Disputes Bill, Lord Rosebery said the Government were not united on the measure which provided for arbitration and conciliation boards. Therefore were unable to make it a Government question. COMMBRCIAL. The American visible supply of wheat is 84J million bushels. Over 600 carcases of frozan mutton, ex ship Wellington, bave been condemned.' MR D. GILLIES. Mr D. Gillies, the new Agent-general for Victoria, has arrived. ! THE CANADIAN CONFERENCE. News has been received that Cape Colony is unlikely to send a delegate to the Canadian Conference. A SUSPENSION. Tho Discount Corporation of Ireland has suspended with liabilities of LiOO.OOO. THB EARTHQUAKES IN GREECE. Athens, April 23. Tho death rolls of the earthquake have increased to 320. The loss of life was especially large in the monasteries. It is reported that whole families, were, engulfed while attending church. A pier in the Byzantine oburch at Daphne ■was shattered, and its fall wreaked the whols building. THE U.S. TARIFF. Washington, April 25. The Tariff Bill has been modified in order to secure the entire Democratic vote of the Senate, and it ia predicted that the measure will be passed about the middle of Jane.