LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 117, 28 February 1894, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[By Bleotno Telegraph —Cop> right.]

(Per Press Association.) Received 1 a.m. Londoh, Feb. 27.

Sir Andrew Clark, acting Agent General for Victoria, impresses on the British Go rernment and Governments of the Australasian colonies the necessity for develop ing the ocean mail route to cronies through the Atlantic and Pacific cn the ground that the naval, military, political, and trading Advantages of western route w ould g eatly add to the potential strength of the Empire in event of an outbreak of war. The Government programme for next session includes the registration of evicted j tenants, and the disestablishment of I the Welsh church. | Mr Gladstone declines to bring forward ! a proposal for the granting of home rule I to Scotland. The London County Council has sub mitted to a royal commission a scheme for forming London into one corporation. The draft proposal provides for the amalgamation of London into one municipal, corj>oration consisting of 118 councillors and 91 aldermen under the Lord Mayor. The property of Citv of Loadon County Councils is to pass the new body subject to trusts. The Government has accepted the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Parish Councils Bill, dealing with the compulsory purchase And hiring of land, and the appointment of trustees of Parochial Charities Bill is now regarded as safe. Parliament prorogues on March sth, and reassembles on March 12th. At the inquest on anarchist Bourden. Majentic testified that it was clearly the intention of the deceased to throw the bomb into observatory, but explosion was premature. The jury returned a verdict of felo de »e. News from the West Coast. Africa, states that one hundred marines and men of the West Indian regiment, who were ordered to co-operate with Captain Gamble at Ganjor, have returned safely, having destroved a number of native villages. Admiral Bedford’s expedition against the Arab chief will be reinforced by a party of fifty marines from the Capo Twenty. Men have been sent from Plymouth to replace the wounded men belonging to H.M.S. Raleigh. Mr Panmure Gordon offers to take the half-raillionof ihe Me bourne Metropolitan Board of Work* bonds at par, ex elusive of expenses.