CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5014, 24 September 1887, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

(PER RENTER'S AGENCY,) THE LATEST. Received September 24, 3.0 a.m. LONDON, September 22. The Irish Nationalists having announced their intention of holding a demonstration at Mitoheltown tomorrow, when the trial of O'Brien will be commenced, the Government have issued an*order forbidding the meeting. At the inquiry into the railway accident near Donoaster, the jury re turned a verdict of manslaughter against the driver and fireman of the train which ran into and smashed the excursion train. HAMBURG. ■* September 22. The Council of Elders in this city, composed of the principal merchants, has petitioned the authorities to send an Imperial Commissioner to the Melbourne Exhibition. CALCUTTA, September 21. It is reported at Simla that Avoub Khan has been captured in Kain (sic), Persia, and a number of his followers have been seen near Meshed, a city in the province of Khanassan. BERLIN, September 22, It is expected that a meeting will take plaoe between the Emperor and Ozar at Dantzsio early next month. MELBOURNE, September 28. It is expected that the Hon. 8. T. Best and Mr Davies will be candidates for the Speakership of the Aesembly. The Governments of Sooth Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales have agreed to a proposal for a Conference of Postmasters-General, to be held at Adelaide, commencing on November 7th. New Zealand will be invited to send a representative. Amongst the questions to be discussed are those affecting oable subsidies, intercolonial postal reciprocity, and parcels pobt. , SYDNEY, September 28. A tram motor whilst conveying coal to-day, ran off the lint near Moore Park, the driver being killed, and the fireman seriously injured.