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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6204, 1 May 1890, Page 2

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (PbrlElectric Telegraph—Copyright. ) (Per Press Association.) (Received [8 p.m., April 30th.) London, April 29. THE WOOL SALES. The price for good wool remains steady. Medium and inferior are depressed, SILVER. Silver is quoted at 3s lid. THE BAPTIST UNION. Colonel Griffin has been appointed president-elect of the Baptist Union. NEW ZEALAND CHEESE. New Zealand cheese ex steamer Duke of Westminster is quoted at 45s to 48s. KING GEORGE’S SODND. Major Clarke, secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee of the War Office, considers that it would cost £50,000 to fortify King George’s Sound, and that it would be required to be garrisoned by 1000 men. In time of war he thinks that it would be better to leave the Sound defenceless, than for England to bear the whole of the cost. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Before the Enabling Committee to-day Sir William Robinson advocated that Western Australia should have control of all lands until a new colony is established. THE VICTORIAN DIVORCE BILL. The English Church Union has unanimously condemned the Victorian Divorce Bill, and passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the clergy. COMMERCIAL, Tallow, mutton, 24s fid to 255; beef, 23a fid to 255.

Hides, 3>d to per lb. WRECKED VESSELS. Paris, April 29. Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to Paris, has notified the French Government that England desires the regulations of October, 1889, relative to the salvage of wrecked vessels made applicable to Queensland. (Special to Press Association.) (Received 12.10 p.m., April 30th.) PUGILISTIC. London, April 29. Unless Slavin succeeds in making a match he will return to Australia. The fight between Peter Jackson and J. L. Sullivan for 15,000d015. takes place in San Francisco on June 3rd. . THE POSTAL RATES. Mr Raikos, the Postmaster-General, has informed the Agents-Goneral that rates on pattern parcels will be reduced in May. THE VICTORIAN LOAN. Virtually the whole of the Victorian loan is paying under discount. COLONIAL FEDERATION. The Duke of Cambridge will preside at the meeting of Australian colonists and merchants which is to be held in the People’s Palace next month, to consider resolutions in support of colonial federation. Speaking on federation Earl Rosebery said that England should not approach the colonies in the attitude of beggars, and it was impossible to force federation on them. He hoped, however, that in the end, federation would be brought about, and that it would be the prelude to the union of the English-speaking races.

(Received 12.55 p.m., April 30th.) PORTUGUESE GUNBOATS. Lisbon, April 29. Portugal is following the example set by England, and is building gunboats suitable for the navigation of the Shire and Zambesi rivers. PRINCE BISMARCK. Berlin, April 29. Prince Bismarck will shortly leave on a visit to Scotland. THE TURKISH DEBT. Germany has offered a protest to the projected conversion of the Turkish debt. ENGLAND AND CHINA, St. Petersburg, April 29. The'Russian Press is commenting on the danger which would accrue to the Russian Empire through China throwing in her lot with England, and lending her assistance in case of an outbreak of war. , THE DELAGOA RAILWAY DISPUTE. Lisbon, April 29, England and America are insisting upon Portugal referring the Delagoa railway dispute to arbitration. AGRARIAN AGITATION. Vienna, April 29. Agrarian agitation has broken out in Galaoia. O’DONOVAN ROSSA. New York, April 29. O’Donovan Rossa has been found guilty of criminal libel on Patrick Cassidy, but the jury recommended him to mercy. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Berlin, April 29. The Emperor William is at present on a visit to Eisenach in central Germany, MILITARY EXECUTION, < St. Petersburg, April 29. The order committing Schmidt, who is alleged to have betrayed plans of the fortresses at Cronstadt, to penal servitude in Siberia, has been countermanded, and he was shot. It was ascertained that he secretly divulged Russia’s scheme for mobilising her troops in the event of war with Austria. INDIAN REFORM. Calcutta, April 29, More than one hundred meetings have been held in Bengal at which resolutions were passed supporting Mr Bradlaugh’s Indian reform scheme, as opposed to that of Viscouut Cross, Secretary of State for India. | (Received 1.15 p.m., May Ist.) OBITUARY. London, April 30. Lord Hammond, aged 78. THE DEATH OF HERMIT,

Hermit, the well-known thoroughbred stallion, is dead. THE EMPEROR AND THE QUEEN. The Emperor William of Germany will pay a visit to Queen Victoria in the autumn. ROYALIST CONSPIRACY. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris to take place on May Ist, has been discovered. CONFLICT WITH RIOTERS. Vienna, April 30. Serious conflicts have taken place between the rioters in Moravia and the military. Some of the former were wounded.