LATE TELEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 953, 25 April 1889, Page 22

LATE TELEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Pee Pebss Association.) London, April 24.

Extensive preparations were made to receive General Boulanger at Charing Cross station. He was provided with a special steamer,' and also a special train 1 . M. Henri Rochefort and Conht Dillon accompany the General, who has already been inundated with invitations. The Government remain neutral in the matter.

Joe Thompson, the Australian bookmaker, has offered to back Slavin against either Smith of Mitchell for £1000 a side for the championship of England and Australia, the match to take place either in London or Melbourne;

It is stated that Lord Randolph Churchill has had a violent quarrel with Mr Chamberlain.

It is proposed to ■ divert Iriah emigration in the direction of Queensland and Western Australia.

At the Epsom Spring meeting the Great Metropolitan Stakes was won by Tisaphernes, with Cotillon second, and Fallow Chat third, Archbishop Walsh requests that father M'Fadden, committed for trial for complicity in the murder of Inspector Martin, be tried in England. ' . " A plebiscite taken at Massachusetts, United States, rejected the proposal for a prohibitory liquor law.

It has been discovered ab Zurich that a plot had been arranged to dynamite the Czar during ' Easter. ' The arrest of • several military officers has been made in connection with it

In his address Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, says that the autonomy of Bulgaria is assured.

Lord R. Churchill, referring to a heated controversy which has arisen over the result of the late election for Birmingham, severely condemns the provoking attitude of Mr J. Chamberlain towards the Tories pi that city. ''

Preparations for the great agricultural show at Windsor are in a forward state. It will be opened by the Prince of Wales on June 14 ? and her Majesty will pay a visis to it three days latter.

The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at Bristol, said 'the principle' of nationality in Ireland was barren of solid argument.' Men were bound by the present; and not by memories of the past. No previous Opposition, he said, had justified embezzlement and fraud. The union between Conservatives and Unionists was becoming closer, and the growth of the Primrose League was [transcendently more valuable than party interest or the solution of the currency qnestion, as it was instrumental in cementing classes.

The Edinburgh Council have, by 24 to 13, carried the proposal 'to confer the freedom of Edinburgh on Mr Parnell.

Sir Henry Loch, Governor of Victoria, and Lady Loch are at present in London. His Excellency will not attend the opening of the Paris Exhibition on May 6, but with Lady Loch will pay an unofficial visit about the middle of the month; They will remain in Paris 10 days and then start on the homeward journey, which will be via Canada, where they arrive in July. Sir Henry expects to reach" Melbourne towards the end' of September. Lady Loch is considerably improved in health, though very weak ' A

Sir IP. D. Bell is arranging for an exhibit of New Zealand frozen nieat at the Paris Exhibition.

It is understood that the names 'of six gentlemen willing to accept the cHief cpmmissionership of Queensland railways have' been' submitted to the Government oi that

colony. These include Mr Mathiesen, super- < intendent of the Glasgow 'South-Western railway ;,Mri ßobertson, superintendent of! the Highland Railway, Company ; , and Mr Newton, secretary of the . London-Tilbury Railway Company.*

Paeis, April 23. During the course of a service in the cathedral of Alengon, 58 miles south of Calne, •in iNormandy, a petard was thrown upon N the altar,' and the Archbishop of Paris, who was officiating, j had a narrow escape from, the effects of the explosion. The French Government has intimated to the Italian : authorities that it is .useless to renew. negotiations for a commercial treaty between the two countries.

Belgrade, April 23.

The Regents of Servia are privately urgin Queen Natalie to delay her return to the countiy. The young king will be -crowned in June.