CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7032, 8 June 1891, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph— Per United PreßQ Association

LONDON,

June 5. The Behring Sea Fisheries Suspension Bill has passed the House of Commons. In the House of Commons to-day Baron De Worms, Political Secretary for the Colonial Office, staled that the Boer expedition to Mashonaland had been abandoned. BERLIN, June 5. The Prussian Lower House has restored the Romish stipends which were sequestrated during the Kulturkamp struggle. OTTAWA, June 5. The House of Commona, by a majority of 32, rejected the proposal ■ to introduce the one man one vote system. LISBON, June 5. The Committee of the Cortes has recommended that the Anglo-Porluguese Convention be ratified. ST. PETERSBURG, June 5. The British Consul at Libaw, a port on the Baltic Sea, has warned the refugee Jews not to emigrate to England as there is very little prospect of their obtaining employment there. A number of the Jews are emigrating to Australia. SYDNEY, June 6. One of the missing steamers has arrived safely. The other, the Taramung, bound from Newcastle to Melbourne laden with coal, is now seven days out, and it is feared that she has foundered. Her officers and crew number thirty. Intelligence received from the New Hebrides Islands state that the natives in Touna are fighting among themselves In other respects affairs at the Islands are quiet. MELBOURNE, June 6. The Board of Enquiry which was act up to investigate the circumstances connected with the mutiny of the Third Regiment of Militia at Ballarat at the beginning of May, reports that they found gross irregularities in connection with the regiment, and that a conspiracy existed amongst the men against Sergeant-Major Garland. The Board recommend that the regiment be disbanded. HOBART, June 6. When the s.s. Hauroto, which left here yesterday for the Bluff, was about sixty miles out, the feed pipe burst, and the vessel returned to port to have repairs effected. A number of the passengers transhipped to the Rotokino. which was on the point of leaving for Dunedin when the Hauroto returned. The Hauroto will resume her voyage to the Bluff to-day. BRISBANE, Jane 6. Sir Samuel Griffiths has agreed to recommend Parliament to contribute to the naval defence fund. Mr Wragge, Government Meteorologist predicts a further spell of squally weather between New South Wales and New Zealand. {SPECIALS TO PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 8. Sir Reginald Hanson, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1886, has been elected to fill the vacancy for the City of London in the House of Commons caused by the death of Sir Robert N. Fowler. Borne members of the Victorian Mounted Rifle team taking part in the Royal Military Tournament have decided to enter at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, and will compete for the Queen's prize of £250 and the gold medal and badge of the Association. Mr Edward S. W. De Cobain, M.P. ! for the Eastern Division of Belfast, against whom serious criminal charges have been preferred, and who absconded from the country, has declined to return^ to England to meet the charges. Mr De Cobian was, early in May last, identified at Bilboa, in Spain, conducting religious services. ■ ' I