CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7404, 18 August 1892, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph— Per United Press Association LONDON, August 15. Mr Munro has not yet decided on what action he will take, and has only asked whether leave of absence would be granted him if he found it necessary to return to the Colony. Sir W. J. Glarka offered, on hia own initiative, to take charge of the London agency for six months to enable Mr Munro to return to Melbourne 1 Mr Munro declares that the statements published are outrageous, and states that his faith in the Real Estate Bank was so great that he bought shares in the institution in the same week in which the cloud bur3t. He had deposited the wbole of his wife's money, amounting to £10,000, in the Bank, and everything had gone. August 16. Mr G. N. Groom, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, in the oourse of an interview to-day, said that the Aot permitting the renewal of Kanaka labor in the Colony was most disastrous to the people, and that the indecent haste with whioh tha matter was pushed was a public soandal. Miss Marion Disney, in a letter to the ' Daily Telegraph,' gives heartrending scenes attend" ing the employment of Kanaka labor. She alleges that the islanders have to submit to terrible treatment, and that their condition is worse than that of American slaves. To-day's message respecting the new Cabinet is confirmed with the following additions — that Lord Kimberley will bo Secretary of State for the Indian Department and Lord-President of the Council ; Sir George 0. Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland; Mr Arnold Morley, Postmaster* General ; Mr 0 D. Dyke Acland, VicePresident of the Education Department; and Lord Houghton, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The last-named will not have a a seat in the Cabinet. It is. officially announced that the Marqui& &| Bipon hao accepted the portfolio of Secretary of Stata for the Colonies. The Duke of Devonshire was married to day to the Dowager Duchess of Manchester. Mr W. T Stead has made a further and more sensational attack on Sir Chae, Dilke in the ' Review of Reviews.' The Inman steamship Co. proposes to remove the headquarters of its fleet of steamers from Liverpool to Southampton, HONG KONG, August 16. The Chinese Government has strongly protested to the Russian Government against the occupation of the Pamir alleging that it is a breach of treaty. BRUSSELS, August 16. Information has been recieved that the Lioadia natives made a raid on Kilna on the Congo, firing villages and killing twenty of the occapants. ST.PETERSBURG, Angnßt 16. Cholera has broken out at Helingfora. TEHERANj August 16. The daily death rate in the city from cholera ia 300. CALCUTTA. August 16. Mr Gonway's exploring expedition has successfully accomplished the passage of the Hispar and Musihok in the Hindoo Koosh mountains. Marquis of Lansdown has informed the Ameer of Afghanistan thai it will be neces sary for the latter to meet Lord Roberta in Ootober, aB he returns to England in spring* NEW YORK, August 16. The police have refused to act against the strikers and the militia have been summoned. It is feared that the point&mun will join the strike. MELBOURNE, August 16. The Government has decided thaS Me Munro, Agent-General of Victoria, shall take indefinite leave of absence. . August 17.

with the Governments of other Colonies pointing oat that it in not desirable to allow France to acquire Sr Paul or Amsterdam islands and desires that joint representations should be made to the Imperial authorities in conneotion with the matter.