CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 13

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Loxdon, July 25. The Prince of Wales's condition is quite satisfactory. July 26. Earl Minto succeeds Lord Aberdeen as Goa ernor-general of Canada. [Gilbeit John Elliot, Murray-Kynynmouncl-Elliot, w&-s born in 1845. lie was for some timo in the Scots Guards; was attached to the Turkish Army on the Danube in 1877; seivecl in Afghanistan and in the Egyptian campaign of ISB2. He was appointed military secretary to the Governor-general of Canada in 1883, Jincl was Chief of Staff in the campaign in Northwest tenitoneb of Canada in 3855.]

English wheat at Mark Lane is quoted Is pec quaiter lower on the week. The Canadian riflemen at Bisley secured the highest colonial aggregate. The Sugar Conference report states that all countries except France and Russia are willing to abolish bounties. France and Belgium will continue to diplomatically discuss the question, and if the results aie satisfactory the conference will reassemble. Intercolonial

Mr G. W. Palmer (Radical) has been elected by a majority of 694 to fill the vacancy for Reading in the House of Commons caused by the death of Mr Murdoch (Conservative) . During the hearing of a case in the Manchester County Court a litigant shot at and wounded Judge Parry while the latter was pronouncing an adverse judgment. The South Wales coliiers have declined the assistance of Sir Edward Fry, who was recently appointed by the Government as conciliator, in the strike. They insist upon a minimum wage of 22^ per cent, above the rates paid in 1897, the abolition of the sliding scale, and the appointment of a conciliation board and an umpire. Mr As'her Wertheimcr, a well-known London art dealer, purchased from Lord Francis Hope, brother of the Duke of Newcastle, the famous collection of pictures by Dutch and Flemish artists at Dccpene, the family seat, Suirey. The price paid mas £121,550.

July 27.

The Standard states that Lord Salisbury Juid Mr Chamberlain are favourable to the

proposal of Mr Cecil Rhodes that the Imperial Government should guarantee a loan of two millions for the construction of a railway from Bulawayo to Lake Tanganyika. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, opposes the proposal.

The Prince of Wales Mill be removed to Cowes on Saturday.

Mr Goschen states that he is unaware that Russia has modified her naval .scheme.

The American visible supply of wheat is, 12,639,000 bushels.

The Russian press received the Briliiu naval scheme, outlined by Mr Gosclicn, with lcmarkable equanimity. The Daily iSeva states that the Duke of Norfolk, Postmaster-general, has given an assurance that he will not attempt to force the Australasian colonies to join the penny postage system by sending letters to Australia for one penny. Ajny change in the existing arrangement with Australia will only result from mutual consent.

The Times states that the system of Imperial penny postage agreed upon between Oreat Britain and a portion of hey possessions begins on November 9.

July 28,

The Postmaster-General has written to the Agents-General stating that Imperial penny postage will only be extended to the Governments reciprocating.

Lords Brassey, Loch, Herbert, and the lion. W. A. Mulocfe, Canadian PostmasterGeneral, interviewed Mr Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, relative to the Admiralty enrolling colonial seamen as reserve. They urged that well-drilled forces of Australia were capable of serving in the navy if the conditions of service were slightly altered.

The Hon. Mr Mulock staled that the 75,000 fishermen in Canada would provide excellent material for the reserve.

Mr Goschen acknowledged the sympathy of the colonies, but said there v^cro great difficulties surrounding the training of colonists, especially ii^ regard to the six months' training aboard warships. If the colonies would bear the expense of training the men, Great .Britain Avould bear the cost of the retaining fee. It was impossible to mnke the conditions for training in the colonies easier than those at Home.

At the trial of John Trocld, of attempting to murder Count Arco-Valley, first secre-

tary to the German Embassy at London, last month, by firing at him with a revolver, acccused was adjudged insane.

The Financial News states that Victor a will have no difficulty in borrowing on the London market for public works, as outlined in Sir George Turner's Budget speeik

The Agents-general intend to jointly request the War Office to recognise Australian leather as British.

July 29. The House of Lords passed the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill.

Lord Winchilsea denies Hooley's statement that he received £10,000 in connection with Hooley's companies.

The Prince of Wales is now free from pain and is improving. Mr Chamberlain states that the Government are considering the advisability of appointing a committee of inquiry into the French shore question in Newfoundland.

The Wesleyan Conference, now sitting, has approved of raising a fund of a million guineas, out of which it is proposed to devote £300,000 to erecting places of worship, £200,000 to education, £250,000 to connexions] buildings in London, and £200,000 to missions.

Lord Brassey, in a letter to The Times, urges a departmental inquiry into the desirability of the State subsidising sailing ships for the purpose of training officers and seamen for the Naval Reserve.

M. Borehgrevink will sail in tlie middle of August •in command of the expedition equipped by Sir George. Newiies to explore the Antarctic regious. Mr Chamberlain has notified the liquidator of the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Company that the Fijian subsidy will not be pail after the end of the present financial year. Petersen, Tate, and Co. , of abandoned their contract with the Canadian Government for a fast mail service between England and Canad *

July 30. > I Correspondence relating to the New Gui- ] nea Land Syndicate is published. Mr Chamberlain, in a cable to Viscount Hornpden, Governor of New South Wales, .states that as the matter is one of ordinary admini- , stration, Queensland is not strictly bound to consult the other Governments, though he assumed the Melbourne Conference fully considered the question, Queensland cannot repudiate without a breach of faifch. Yet if the three Governments concerned agree to amendments, supplementary to those made by himself, such amendments not touching the essence of the contract, he will endeavour to obtain the syndicate s consent to them. July 31. At the New Zealand Midland Railway de-benture-holders' meeting, Mr Alexander Young, receiver of the company, announced the intention of carrying the dispute with j the Government to "the Privy Council if j necessary. Several speakers strongly denounced the New Zealand Government's action, one saying it was little removed from fraud. A resolution was passed approving of Mr Young's action. One hundred and twenty members of the Hoxi^e of Commons have petitioned the Government to introduce legislation next j year in fulfilment of their pledges to provide a scheme of old age pensions. | The trial of Alfred John Monson, Victor Honor, and Robert Metcalfe on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company has beeu concluded. All three were found guilty. Monpon and Honor were sentenced to five years' imprisonment, Avith hard labour; MetcaKc to 18 months. August 1. Obituary: Professor Caircl. (It is uncertain whether Profcsor Caird of the Glasgow : University or the Master of Balliol is meant). Paris, July 29. The Colonial party in the Chamber of Deputies arc furiously attacking the commercial clauses of the Niger Convention, and urge that they should not be ratified. J July 31. Owing to M. Zola's suspension from the Legion of Honour, M. Barbier, the dramatist, and several other litcratcuvs have resigned their Grand Crosses. Captain Cassemajou,. leader of a small French expedition to Sokoto, West Africa, has been massacred, as well as feix Cingalese. Berlin, July 25. The German press are agitating for separate commercial treaties with the British colonies, as distinct from Grcit Britain, believing that Germany v\ill thereby gain a large increase in her trade. 6 Berlin, July 27. _ Prince Bismarck is seriously ill. He is confined to bed, and his condition is critical. July 28. Dr Schwenfgev slates lliat Prince Bismarck is in no immediate danger. Yir.:<:;\, July 25. At the International dit'-s tournament Or Tarrasch and Pilhbury each scored 26^ igamCß'i gamCB ' July 27. i The Austrian Reichsrath has closed. All : efforts to arrange a compromise ou the question of the use of the Czech language proved abortive.

: July 31. Ihe International Chess Tournament has been won by Dv Tarrasch, of Germany, j St. PETKKsnrRG, July 25. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is visiting ' Russia, and is the gue^t of tlie Czar at Peter- ' lioff Palace, Rome, July 27. j The Government have given Columbia 20 days to fulfil the terms of the Cerruti award. ] Athexs, July 25. j Djcvad Pasha, the Military Governor of Crete, has resigned o^ ing to the Powers ie- ' fusing to allow the Porte to reinforce the Turkish garrisons on the island. ... ' xm, wiai vi viyniinoaore rsncrucTiris, w~ho '. had charge of one of the Greek squadrons : during the Grseco-Turkish war. on a charge of culpable inactivity is proceeding. Prince George of Greece deposed that the incoherent orders of the Delyanni Government gravely I imperilled the Greek fleet. July 28. Commodore Saehtouris has been acquitted on the charges of culpable inactivity during the Graeco-Turkish war. July 30. The Cretan Assembly lias accepted the i provisional constitution suggested by the foreign admirals. Skaxguat, July 27. The rebels in the province of Kwang-si, China, number 40,000. They declare thai ' they intend to overlhiow (he mandarin influences. Cairo, July 25. Supplies for the Anglo-Egyptian army 1 in the Soudan sufficient for 90 days have j been concentrated at Atbara. The River Nile is rising rapidly. Zanzibar, July 27. Dervi,-.hes arc threatening Foru, on the Congo. Help is being tent from Uganda. July 28. Major C. G. Martyr, who some lime a^o was, despatched as second in command of the forces against the Uganda rebels, attacked ] 400 of the Nubim deserters afc Mruli, the [ foimor capital of Unyoro, on the bank of the j Somerset USTile. Forty-four of Major Martyr's Indian troops were killed or wounded. Seoul, July 26. The King of Corea, wishing to abdicate, has applied to be allowed to take refuge at the British Consulate, but his application ' was refused. Capetown, July 26. M. Th. Stern, President of the Orange ' Free State, in proroguing the Volksvaad, j said that the future of South Africa was now much brighter. Hoxoiajlv, July 25. Lilioukalani, ex-Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, is suing the American G overnment for the value of a million acres of Crown lands in Hawaii ; also for 400,000d01, repro-* fcenting the back rents of these lands.