TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5028, 8 June 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Pgr Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 8.20 p.m., June 7tb.) SKETCHING TOUR. London, June G. Mr Mortimer Menpes, tho well known artist, has arranged to make a sketching lour to Persia. THE ATLANTIC CABLE SERVICE. Sir James Anderson, managing director of the Eastern Telegraph Company, has left for Canada to sign the contract for the Atlantic cable service. He is arranging for an Australian service subject to tho approval of the colonies, REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS. It is expected that the committee of Australian shippers co-operating with the Shipping Brokers’ Association will shortly announce a further reduction in freights of 2s Gd per ton on all classes of merchandise. LORD LYTTON. Lord Lytton is seriously ill, and it is probable that an interim ambassador will be appointed to Paris. THE PRAED LIBEL CASE. The husband of Mrs Campbell Praed, the novelist, has recovered from the proprietor of the Country Gentleman a sum of £SOO damages for libel.

ANOTHER. VERY MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Tho remainder of the trunk of a woman has been discovered at Battersea Park showing clearly that tho case is one of murder. THE MAYBRICK MURDER. At tho inquest on tho body of James Maybrick, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against tho woman in custody. .COMMERCIAL. Nov/ South Wales mutton is quoted at d.jd per lb, and New Zealand at sd. Tho tone of tho tallow market is firm. Best mutten, 27s 01 to 283. Sugar continues to advance. Gorman beet, 24s 3d, THE SEALING TROUBLE. Victoria (8.C.), June G. Scaling vessels are still going to Bohring Straits in defiance of the warning issued by the United States Government. THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR AND THE EXHIBITION. Paris, Juno 6 An effusive reply signed by 250 members of tho Chamber of Deputies has been

sent to the Radical members of the English House of Commons who forwarded a memorial to the President regretting the absence of Lord Lytton, the English Ambassador, from Paris at the opening of the Exhibition.

(Special to Press Association.)

(Received 10.35 p.m., June 7th) THE CAPE GOVERNORSHIP. London, June 7.

Sir Henry Loch is unwilling to accept the Governorship of the Cape, but is being pressed to do so by the Colonial Office.

The Cape Parliament has passed a resolution regretting that Sir Hercules Robinson is not returning, and reaffirming the policy enunciated by him. NEW GUINEA TRADING COMPANY. A New Guinea trading company is being formed under the presidency of Lord Gifford. Twenty-five thousand applications have been received for a total of a million acres. THEATRE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

The Theatre Royal at Burnley, Lancashire, has been destroyed by fire.

STRIKE OF SEAMEN,

The Glasgow seamen have gone out on strike, demanding au increase in wages. NAVAL COMMANDER DISMISSED.

Commander Maurice O’Burko, of H.M.S. Surprise, which was in collision off Sicily, has been dismissed the navy.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION AND LOSS OF LIFE.

YoK' HAMA, June 6,

A volcano in Japan has broken out in active eruption, and 170 persons have been killed.

MADAME MELBA.

Paris, JuneG,

Madame Melba, the Australian cantatrice, has scored a brilliant success in l( Rigoletto.”

THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. New York, June 7.

The fund in aid of the Johnstown sufferers has reached the sum of hr,lf a million pounds.

(deceived 1 a.m., Juno Bth.) TBE INQUEST ON DR CRONIN. Chicago, June 7. At the inquest on the body of Dr Cronin it was alleged that Alexander Sullivan had misappropriated 100,000 dollars the moneys of the Clan-na-Gael society. Evidence was also adduced that Major LeCaron received a letter warning him that it was intended to murder Dr Cronin, MADAME MELBA. London, June 9. The Standard declares that Madame Melba is an operatic artist of the first rank. Her splendid voice, it adds, is unsurpassed for purity and sweetness, and is incapable of false intonation.