LATE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 21

LATE TELEGRAMS.

BRITrSH AffD FOREIGN. (Per Press- Association.) London, August 8. A fishing lugger foundered off Scarborough, and nine persons were drowned. In the Honso of Commons to-day, Sir G. Campbell, member for KirkcaHy, gave notice to ask on Saturday whether Sir H. Pavkes admitted acting'illegally in excluding, Jnnese from New South Wales ; . whether he had stated that the Government were deter? mined to exclude Chinese despite thelm? perial Government; whether Lord Carrington had assented to the bill indemnifying the action of the Government; and whether

this bill is in accordance with existing treaties between Great Britain and China. An off coast Australian wheat cargo has been sold from 35s 6d to 38s. Flour is quoted at from 25s 6dto 265. Leather, best sides, lO^d. The royal mail train travelled from London to Edinburgh in 7hr 52sec, thus breaking the record. In consequence of reported threats to dynamite the railways and the underground line, strict watch is being kept on all the lines. The Government have declined to recommend that -the convict Jackson, who murdered a warder at Manchester Gaol, should be respited, and the sentence of death will be carried out. Mrs Gordon Baillie has been admitted to bail— herself in £500, and two sureties of £250 each. The higher court has confirmed the conviction of Mr Dillon, who had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for an agrarian offence. " Parleying for a British protectorate over North Borneo is still proceeding. The Irish members are protesting against the application of England for the reprieve of the murderer Maxwell, and they compare this clemency with the treatment received by O'Donnell, the murderer of Carey. The Times has accepted Mr Parnell's challenge, and published the Irish Local Government and Coercion Bills which, it is alleged, were not accepted by the Gladstone Cabinet. Bishop Barry denies that he was offered the See of Chester. Mrs Sheridan, relict of tho late General Sheridan, will be voted a pension by the United States Senate. Paris, August 7. President Carnot to-day, at Montargis, unveiled the statue erected to the memory of Mirabeau, the well-known Eevolutionary statesman. The ceremony was the occasion of much enthusiasm. A large body of strikers sacked and fired a factory at Amiens, and then interfered with the firemen who attempted to subdue the flames. A serious riot ensued between the rioters and firemen. The cavalry were called out, and charged the rioters with drawn swords, cjeariug the streets. The firemen then set to work to subdue the flames, which they ultimately succeeded in doing. Later Jon the strikers attacked a number of Italian workmen, who had been imported to fill their' places.' .In the melee many of the latter were brutally illused. Rome, August 7. The whole of the Lipari Islands are in active eruption, but no fatalities are reported. " Vienna, August 8. Heavy floods have caused extensive damage in country districts. Dubban, August 8. Dinizulu and Undebuko have taken refuge in the Cetza bush coantry. An immediate effort will be made to dislodge them. General Ignatieff, speaking at a banquet at Kiel, said that Russia was [gradually advancing to the westward, careless of the opposition shown by Austria.