TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5025, 5 June 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN, (Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) NEW DOCKS AT CALAIS. Paris, June 3. President Carnot opens the new harbour docks at Calais to-day. TEE PANAMA CANAL. Four hundred stockholders propose sending a commission to Panama to devise means of saving the works, and to stop wholesale robbery of material and plant. SIR HERCULES ROBINSON. London, June 3. Sir Hercules Robinson retires from the public service, the Colonial Office not being prepared to support his policy. LONDON VOLUNTEERS. Lord Mayor Whitehead is appealing for £85,000, to properly and thoroughly equip the London volunteer force. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES COMMISSION. The report of the sugar commission awaits the approval of the signatory countries. SIR HERCULES ROBINSON’S POLICY. London, June 3.

In the House of Lords Lord Knutsford declared that Sir Hercules Robinson’s retirement from the Governorship of Cape Colony was purely voluntary, and that nothing had passed between the Colonial Office and Sir Hercules Robinson expressing disapproval of the latter’s administration at the Cape. Lord Knutaford said that the Government were not in a position to promise to support the views hold by Sir Hercules Robinson without first discussing them. In speaking to the question both the Earl of Carnarvon and the Earl of Kimberley asserted that the successor to Sir Hercules Robinson would be compelled to follow the policy set forth by him. IMPERIAL PROTECTION. In the House of Lords to-day Lord Lamington asked the Secretary for the Colonies whether, if the colonies other than the Crown colonies are willing to pay a certain proportion of the expense, it may not bo desirable to return to the old system of sending a small number of troops to each colony as the means of strengthening the connection between the colonies and the Mother Country. In reply, Lord Knutsford said that Her Majesty’s Government believed that the colonies were not prepared to pay any sum towards the expense of Imperial troops, even if the Government were willing to send them. SHIPPING. Arrived—Wellington, ship, from Lyttelton, March 2nd. New Yokk, June S. Arrived—William Phillip, barque, from Auckland, March Uth.

{.Received 2 a.m., June sth.) TROOPS FOR THE COLONIES. London, June 4. In replying to Lord Lamington’s question in the House of Lords, Lord Kuutsford said that if strong Australian pressure was exercised, the Government would consider tho request to send Imperial troops to the colonies, providing that the necessary military and pecuniary conditions were agreed upon.

(Special to the Piibss Association.) (Received 2.20 a.m., Jane sth.) A BAILORS’ STRIKE. London, June 4. A strike has taken place among the sailors, who are standing out for an increase of £5 per month. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE CASE. The refusal of Sir James Ingram, the magistrate at Bow street Police Court, to issue a summons against the Duke of Cambridge for alleged assault on an American repoit’r at the Are brigade demonstration, was brought under the notice of Mr Matthews, tho Home Secretary, but he declined to interfere in the matter. THE CORK SOUTH EAST-SEAT. Mr Murrough, a Home Ruler, has been returned for Cork (South-east) unopposed. THE CALLIOPE. In the House of Commons to-day Mr William P. Corbett, member for Wicklow East,asked the Government what honours and rewards they intended conferring on Captain Kane and the officers and crew of H.M.S. Calliope, in addition to a cold official eulogium. He explained that there was a strong feeling in the House of Commons in favour of suitably acknowledging such gallant conduct. Lord George Hamilton, in reply, stated that it was not the intention of tho Admiralty to give any reward.