CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7265, 9 March 1892, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

By 'i'elegtaph^Per United Pre3a AEBOciation SYDNEy: t . March 8. „ iheilora, fcom AdeliiJe, .which waa raported to be outside yesierdsy disabled, haa Arrived. The face of ber high pressure cylinder is broken. The Company which proposes to lay a Pacifio cable is the Societe Francaise des Telegraphs Sousmariae. Captain Audiey haa had en interview with. Mr Kidd, PoatriiagterGeneral. The iattor, is not at present favorably inclined towards the proposal to give a subsidy of £2000 per annum, but will diacass =he lmtfcc-r wita the Po3tmasler-Qeneral of Queensland this week. MELBOURNE, m t, March 8. lac Premier does not intend to supply the I places of the Council, representatives in tho Ministry who have resigned, till after tho elec:ions. HOBART, March 8. Among the autjeots to be brought .before the Postal Convention are the advisablenesa of deputing one ooloay to oonduct communications with the international bureau at Berne ; the transmission by post of dutiable articles ; the proposal by Great Britain to assimilate the Australian postages to those adopted in the United Kingdom this year; uniformity and n sponaibility with regard to registered articles ; consideration of the Pacific cable question ; and the oonsolidatiou of the f ost and Telegraph Acts of the various oolonies with a viaw to uniformity. The Englishi. ci defeated 18 of Tasmania by one incinga and twenty-one runs.