Cablegrams.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 37, 3 June 1890, Page 2

Cablegrams.

Dp. McLeod, the Bigamist.

A Small Steamer Sunk.

A Valuable Picture.

London, May 28.

Mr Manton’s filly Riviera, while exercising to-day, fell and broke her back, and had to be destroyed. Mr Jenner, cashier at the Hindmarsh branch of the National Bank of Australia, has surrendered himself to the London police, and admits the embezzlement of £4OO, the monies of the Bank. He was brought up before a Magistrate, and remanded. The reduction in the cable tariff will probably begin in January next. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland merely censured the Rev. Mr Dodds for his unheard of statements respecting cardinal doctrines. May 29.

The steamer Ashleigh Brook, which was wrecked on Dassen Island, near Capetown, was in ballast, and had no cargo on board.

News has been received of a serious native revolt in Senegal. Mr Gladstone, replying to an Irish deputation which waited on him at Harwarden, said the three persons killed at Mitchelstown were innocent victims, wantonly and ruthlessly murdered. An exhaustive enquiry into the circumstances had been refused by the Government. He condemned England for allowing evictions to be carried out.

May 30. Sixty-six to one is offered against Kirkhara for the Derby. Speaking at a banquet in Dublin, Mr Dillon stated that in Australia there were 32,000 subscribers to the League, and they virtually represented the income. The colonists, he declared, were prepared to supply funds while Ireland was loyal in Home Rule interests.

Mr Buckley, in a letter to Fairplay, makes many damaging statements against the Bank of New Zealand. New Zealand hemp, good quality, is quoted at £22 10s to £23 15s per ton. Paris, May 29. M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, doubts the truth of the statement that French warships had landed a party of marines at St. George’s Bay, Newfoundland, in order to enforce British fishermen to remove their nets. The Minister appears desirous of entering into diplomatic negotiations, with a view of an amicable settlement of the difficulty. Meissonier’s picture of Napoleon and his.staff. 1814, has been sold for £34,000. Washington, May 28. The Senate has rejected the motion brought up: by Mr Blaine that England be requested to withdraw her warships and dismantle her forts in American waters. Sofia, May 80. The Court found the conspirators guilty, and ordered Major Panitza to be shot. Kalopkoff, the Russian merchant implicated in the plot, was sentenced to nine years, Rizoff and Arnanloff to six and three, and the others to three years.' Zanzibar, May 29.

News has reached here that the expedition under Dr Peters has returned to Bagamayo. Sydney, May 29.

At Newcastle to-day a small harbour steamer with 800 bags of grain and other produce on board, which had been transhipped from the s.s. Manapouri, capsized and sank. May 80.

Dr McLeod has been found guilty on a charge of bigamy. Sentence was reserved, pending argument on certain points. His first wife has obtained a divorce.

H.M.S. Royalist has arrived at Noumea with several traders who were concerned in kidnapping in the New Hebrides, on board. While negotiating Mallico passage, the Royalist ran on a reef, where she remained for about four hours. Trenton has been sold for 8000 guineas. Melbourne, May 80.

During the want-of-oonfidenoe debate in the Assembly, Captain Taylor moved a further amendment “ that the expenditure of the colony has been unduly increased, owing to the misleading financial statement of last session, and that Government have failed to provide a remedy for the present mismanagement of railways,” Mr Munro has withdrawn his amendment in favour of Captain Taylor’s. May 31*

Some remarkable disclosures have been made with regard to sweating

in Melbourne. Women and men in considerable numbers are huddled together in filthy tenements earning from 2s 6d to 15s a week only. Pebth, May 31. The Government has been awakened to the fact that the proposed Constitution Act excludes Chinese, and it is therefore immaterial whether clause 8 is retained or not.