LATE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 22

LATE TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Per Pbess Association.) London, April 2.

In the House of Commons an amendment, moved by Mr William Randal Cremer, member for Baggerston (Shoreditch), objecting to an increase of the navy, was negatived by 171. The motion approving the increase was then passed. , • Justice Sir Charles Bute, of the Admiralty Division, has decided that the collision in the English Channel, on sth February, between the steamer Glencoe and the barque Largo Bay, bound to Auckland, was due to carelessness on the part of the officers of the Glencoe. The British Water Gas Company has been subscribed several times over. Count Herbert Bismarck, who is visiting England, professes to fully agree with Lord Salisbury on colonial questions. The present stocks of copper in England and France are estimated at 118,000 tons. The English wheat market shows a general decline of 6d, the Continental is inactive, and the American market is also declining. For Australian new crop on passage sellers ask 38s. New Zealand mutton is at 4sd per lb. A strong syndicate in connection with the Canadian Pacific route will form a powerful company to open a new route from Australia. The Atlantic passage is to average six days, and from England to Australia 35 days. The Canadian Government have agreed to subsidise the company, and it is hoped the Australian Governments will do likewise. Canon Farrar doubts the truth of the report that he is to have the first refusal of the Sydney diocese. Lord Randolph {Churchill has refused to accede to the request of the Tory Council of Birmingham to contest Birmingham. Mr John Albert Bright will stand for the seat. In the House of Lords Lord Lamington has given notice that on the 15th inst. he will ask the Government if the colonies are agreeable to pay, would the Imperial Government send a few troops to each calony with a view to strengthening the connection between the colonies and Great Britain. Lord George Hamilton has instructed the Admiralty to prepare a scheme which will render the British navy in 1894 equal to the two largest navies of the world. The Government of Morocco have agreed to pay an imdemnity to Great Britain for the murder of an Englishman and permit repairs to the cable to proceed. April 3. Her Majesty the Queen has left Biarritz on her return to London. PARIS, April 2. M. Tirard (the French Premier) has dismissed M. Bouchez, Procureur-general of the Court of Appeal, for declining to prosecute General Boulanger. M. Queeney succeeds M. Bouchez as Pro1 cureur-general. April 3. Persistent rumours arecurrent that General Boulanger is keeping out of the way, fearing arrest. St. Petersburg, April 2. The Shah of Persia has granted the demands of Russia to be allowed to build a railway through that country. Belgrade, April 2. Queen Natalie has offered not to meddle with politics or interfere with her son's education if she is allowed to live in Belgrade. Washington, April 2. Mr Halstead's nomination to the post of American Minister at Berlin was rejected by the Senate on account of his alleged antiGerman tendencies. Government has ordered the Alert at Honolulu, and the Richmond at Marsland, River Plate, and the Adams to proceed to Samoa. April 3. The Iroquois and Persicola have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to reinforce the American squadron at Samoa. The Senate to-day eulogised the late Mr John Bright.