CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2082, 18 January 1894, Page 36

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. • (PEIt PRK3S ASSOCIATION.)

London, January 9. Dr Eenwick, the Now South Wales commissioner at the Chicago Exhibition, has presented £5000 worth of the colony's exhibits to the Imperial Institute. Captain Mackenzie Elliott, of the 40th Regiment, has been appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Glasgow, and sails in the steamer Ophir. The butter market shows a healthier tone. The shipping companies are lowering outward third-class fares.

January 10. British sailors have been lauded in Honolulu to protect the legation in case of further trouble. The Parish Councils Bill haspassed through committee. Two thousand persons marched in procession at Prague cheering the Anarchists. The police dispersed them with bayonets. The Queen of Hawaii is willing to grant an amnesty to political offenders. The Government refuse to resign, and defy President Cleveland. Baron Wayataff is making large purchases of munitions of war in the United Sfcateß on behalf of the Russian Government. Lord Onslow bas sent to the tribe after whom his son born in New Zealand is named a present of a Union Jack. The Woild suggests that Agents-general should combine to establish a central office in the City, with a practical staff. Mr Mundella advises consumers to prosecute tradesmen who sell colonial as Scotch mutton. In the event of any difficulty he promises that the Board of Trade will intervene. Sir A. Clarke has been instructed by the Victorian Government to co-operate with the other Agents-general in pushing forward the Pacific cable scheme, provided the Imperial Government will share in the cost. The total qaantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,820,000 quarters, and for the Continent 988,000 quarters. Ten thousand quarters of Victorian wheat have been Bold at 28a 9d per quarter. The Ruapehu'a butter and cheese arrived in excellent condition. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 90,100,000 bushels. The warrant for the arrest of Scott, the misting witness in the Ardlamont murder trial, has been withdrawn.

January 11. Bishop Webber, of Queensland, speakinp at the Colonial Institute, said the greatest need of Australia was population. Australia was a land of promise crying loudly for men and women, and the colonies offered greater resources than the average resident in Great Britain could obtain in any other portion of the empire. Sir J. C. Bray advises the South Australian Government that in the event of requiring a loan they had better offer 4 per cent, instead of 3£. The Narrandera mutton, chilled in the district and sent down to the seaboard to be frozen, has arrived in splendid condition. Experts think the change in the method of preserving will be of great benefit. A gentleman of Obelmsford, in Essex, named Lindas, quarrelled with and shot his wife, and afterwards a solicitor named Jacobs, in his office in London. Both are in a precarious condition. Lindus has been arrested. The United States House of Representatives is discussing the advisability of proclaiming a protectorate over Hawaii. The statement publisbed in Paris that General Peixoto had resigned the Presidency of Brazil is denied. Obituary: Mrs Thackeray, relict of the novelitt.

/ January 12.

The Jesuits' College at Antwerp has been destroyed by fire. Tho damage is estimated at a million francs. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary.

At a meeting of the Agents-general it was decided to request Lord Ripon to grant them an interview for the purpose of supporting a claim put forward by a Sydney committee on behalf of the captain and crew of the barque Coata Eica, which was seized by the Dutch.

The War Office refuses to grant Australians commissions in the Imperial Artillery and Engineers until a military college for Australia has been established similar to that at Kingston in Canada. Lord Kimberley is seriously ill. The Bank of New Zealand has decided not to issue new capital.

January 14. Five tons of Queensland beef has been sold in Vienna, and Mr Weddel is also sending trial shipments to Germany by Lloyd's Hamburg line. Colonial butter is unchanged.

The Union Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, and carried forward LI 5,000.

Tbo Coptic on her way Home was under fire from the rebel fortp, but was not injured. Officers of a British man-of-war removed her to a safe anchorage.

The British frontier police in Sierra Leone defeated 4000 Sofas, killing 200, including the chief Porrkerry.

In response to a telegram from the Marquis of Ripon (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Sir Charles Tupper.Mr Sandford Fleming, and the Agents-general of the Australian colonies waited on his lordship in support of the Imperial Government granting a subsidy to a cable across the Pacific. The Marquis of Ripon assured the deputation of the sympathy and goodwill of the Government with respect to the project, but he explained that the present was not a proper time to discuss the details. They had better await the results of the conference shortly to be held in Canada between the representatives of the Dominion and the Australian colonies.

Tallow: Medium mutton, 275; beef, 2Gs,

The EDglieh wheat market shows a weak tone, without quotable change. Continental is declining, and American inactive. For Australian wheat on the passage sellers are asking 283 3d 4 but buyers will not give more than 27s 3d, For Australian wheat off tho

coast sellers are asking 28s 63, but buyers refuse to give more than 28s.

Antimony, £37 10a.

Memmott, the Australian billiard champion, defeated Coles, a well-known player, winning nine out of a series of 12 matches. Mr Huddart expects that the Americans will send letters by tbo Vancouver route alternately with the San Francisco steamers.

Mr Geddos proposes that the capital of the Queensland Freezing Company shall be L 45.000, one half of which, he is assured, can be obtained in London.

The Novoe Vremya saye that Russia' and Germany have agreed upon a commercial treaty.

Herr Yon Boetticher, German Minister of the Interior, speaking here, said he thanked God that owing to the wisdom of the Kaiser there was no fear of war in the near future.

General Ignatieff says that Kussia is Servia's true protector, and will shortly demand the evacnation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria.

M. Clemenceau asserts that though it is 20 years since the surrender at Sedan France is skill unprepared should the opportunity arise for revenge.

January 15. Mr Gladstone has gone to Biarritz, a French watering-place.

The son of a well-known Irish squire has been arrested in Paris on a oharge of bigamy. He is said to have six wives, and the arrest has caused a groat sensation.

The Daily News says the Government have decided to build eight new battleships in addition to the annual shipbuilding programme, and also to largely increase the number of cruisers.

Mr Joseph Thorley's shores at Thornhill bridge, Caledonian road, London, have been burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at L 70.000.

Lord Kimberley is better.

Anderson, a clerk in the office of Cook and Sons, tourist agents, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling L9OOO, the moneys of the firm. The accused has been remanded.

The best of the cheese ex Ruapehu, from New Zealand, sold at 54s per cwt. The Coptic's butter has arrived in excellent condition.

The London and India Dock Companies intend erecting additional cool stores near Smithfield for colonial produce. The Protestants in Uganda drove the Moslems on to the banks of a deep river, killed 30 of the bravest leaders, and made prisoners of 1500 women and children.

The Admiralty are arming the new ships with 50-ton guns instead of 67- ton patterns. The Queen of Hawaii is suffering from a serious affection of the heart.

January 16.

The Marquis of Lome read a paper at the Imperial Institute, in which he advocated the institution of a new order, that of the Star of Australasia.

Several colonial butter producers' and import agents in London are forming a new combination for the protection of colonial interests.