Cablegrams.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 91, 16 December 1890, Page 2

Cablegrams.

London December 12. Torpedo and gunnery trials of the Australian cruisers Ringarooma and Taurauga, are proceeding satisfactorily. The ships will be put in commission on the comqletion of trials, and despatched to Australia early next year. December 11. Mr Parnell addressed a meeting of GO,OOO people in Dublin. He was exhausted after his scuffle at the office of the United Ireland and the expulsion of the editor. Several crowded meetings have been held, at which Mr Parnell described Mr Gladstone as a grand old spider catching Irish flies. He announced that his defence would be forthcoming presently, and asserted that he intended to persevere in the constitutional path as long as possible. He appealed to the youth of Ireland against the cowardly mutineers who had deserted him. Mr M'Carthy’g supporters in revenge raided the Young Ireland office and smashed the type. Melbourne, December 13. The Colonial Treasurer has received a cable message stating that it is hopeless to attempt to convert £850,000 worth of six per cent debentures, falling due in January, into 3£ per cent. The associated banks will therefore pay off the debentures, arid and advance half a million without security. The Provosts Committee of the Corporation of Edinburgh, to whom the question of allowing Parnell to retain the freedom of the city was relegated, advise that his name should be struck off the burgess roll.

After the row at the office of United Ireland a great crowd assembled and recaptured the place. The Pall Mall Gazette is moving to secure the intervention of the Queen’s Proctor against Parnell. _ In a scuffle with Parnell United Ireland Office, sticks ancnHf were freely used. Mr Parnell promises to organise the Irish labourers, in order to enable them to secure overwhelming positions in Councils of their native land. - Adelaide December 13. The report of the Select Committee on bonuses recommends that in view of wheat growing becoming less profitable, the system of distributing rooted vines and cuttings be further extended to all bona fide farmers and fruit growers : also appointment of an entomologist and vegetable pathologist to deal with insect pests, and finally that assistance be given by means of bonuses on exported butter, and that all dairy upvchinery fig admitted