LATE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 22

LATE TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(.Per Press Association.) London, May 14. . In. the House of Commons Baron de Worms stated that the Australian colonies, not having offered any objection to ijhe final conditions of the Sugar Bounties Convention, he assumes they have agreed to accept it as it stands. He said the Victorian bill, which provided for differential duty on cane knd beet sugar, was not repealed when the convention passed its report, but Victoria would be bound by the same law as England. It is reported that the Prince of Wales is willing to beqome an active leader of society in Ireland. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir James Fergusson said no reports had been received., by . Government as to the alleged persecution of the Protestant natives on Mare Island, one, of the Loyalty group. The Naval Defence Bill has passed the committee stage in the House of Commons, and the Inland Revenue Bill has been read a second time. The Standard asserts that Germany has declined to sell estates , in Samoa, and, has refused to make any promise to refrain from t) chastising Mataafa. Baron Renter has obtained fresh . concessions from the Shah of Persia, which will enable him to establish an Imperial Bank and work the- shale mines in, that country. " At the York Spring meeting the Great Northern Handicap wa3 wqn by Mr J. B. Savill's Ringmaster. [Ringmaster is an Australian horse, his sire being First, King, and this is the second race he has won since Mr Savill took him to England.] ' -• May 15. Sir F. de Winton has received a letter from. H. M. Stanley, in which he expresses ! his ' intention of returning by 'the East African route. It is impossible to say at present whether Emm Pasha is with him. . St. Petebsbueg, May 13. Another plot against the Czar was discovered on the occasion of Count Tolstoi's funeral, which the Czar attended, and many arrests were made,* chiefly of military. A number of bombs were found in' a house adjacent to the "route of the cortege. A hundred detectives mingled' with the populace, and thus managed to defeat the plot. Washington, May 13. It is suggested that a conference of experts in the' treatment' of 'leprosy: should be held in one of the European capitals. It is also proposed that a memorial fund should be raised in honour of the late Father" Damien, who recently died at the leper station near Honolulu.

INTERCOLONIAL. (Peb Pbess Association.)

Melbotjbne, May 15. The bpdy of a man" named. Bryant- has been found in the Yarra, with a bullet wound in the head. It is believed to be a case of murder. ■ ' The Government have decided to immediately appoint a commission for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, to be held afr Donedin. ■'-..'