BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7387, 4 June 1887, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

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' GLADSTONE STUMPING THE COCNTRY. i

London, June 2. i . Mr. Gladstone journeyed to Swansea ! yesterday, but was considerably pro- ! longed by the ovations he reoeived at the wayside stations, where he delivered speeches entirely devoted to the Irish Question. JUBILEE AT DUBLIN. It is announced that Prince Albert Victor of Wales will represent Her Majesty on the occasion oi the Jubilee celebration at Dublin.

IMPERIAL GENERAL FOR THE I COLONIES.

Lord Wolseley. approves of the periodical inspection of Australian military forces by an Imperial general. DAY DAWN GOLDMINING COMPANY. The capital of the Day Dawn Goldming • Company has been fully subscribed.

NEW GUINEA. )

The Bey. W. G. Lawes, a member of the New Guinea mission, writes ■disoouragingly to the Times of the prospeots of the island. He urges that a protectorate would suffice if Mr. Douglas, the High Commissioner, was invested with full power.

- MAN MURDERED AT SEA.

' The captain, mate, and one seaman of the ship Lady Douglas have been committed for trial on a charge of killing Hassan, a Malay seaman, on the voyage from Shark's Bay, Western Australia, to London.- The defence was that Hassan, by certain actions, had imperilled the safety of the ship.

• RADICAL CONFERENCE.

. ; At a conference of the National Badical Union, held at Birmingham, Mr. Chamberlain said that the disruption of the Liberal party "was irretrievable, and it would be essential to form - a new combination to promote reform and resist anarchy. Lord Hartington said' that- the separationists' tactics - were daily weakening the authority of ". Parliament', and Mr. Bright scornfully 7 referred to the existing dual leadership of Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell.

I JUBILEE DAY IN IRELAND.

The Bossa faction are soliciting money for what they term a " pyroteohnio display" for Jubilee day.

'FRISCO MAIL ARRIVED.

! London, June 3. " The Australian-New Zealand mails from Auckland (April 25), were delivered to-day, via San Francisco.

FRENCH MINISTRY.

' Paris, June 2. M. Bouvier, the French Premier, has scoured a strong vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies, the Eight and Moderate supporting it.

AFGHAN BOUNDARY STILL UNSETTLED.

i . St. Petersburg, June 8. , Colonel Sir Thomas Bidgway, the l British Special Commissioner to arrange the delimitation of the Afghan boundary, left here for London to-day, , for the purpose of consulting the ; Imperial Government upon points still • in dispute.

ENGLAND FORTIFIES HERAT.

Calcutta, June 2. | Kussia , states that England has fortified Herat to withstand a ninety day's siege. The Ghilzais olaim to have severely ' defeated the Ameer's troops on the 1 16 th of May.

: ' RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN AFGHANISTAN.

News has been reoeived that on May 20th a strong Eussian detachment occupied Eerski, a town to tbe south-east of of Bokhara. On the same day a body of Afghans killed fourteon Bokharian officials in the neighbourhood of Eerski for having failed to influence the people to resist the Bussian advance.

RAILWAY EXTENSION" IN INDIA.

The Indian Government have decided that the . extension of the Pisheen railway through Ehojak Pars shall be commenced forthwith. •.-RUSSIANS IN BOKHARA. Calcutta, June 3. The place in Bokhara occupied by a Bussian detachment on May 20th proves to he Kaaki, on the Eiver Oxus, ia the direction of Balkh, a Northern Afghan province, and not Haraki, a town in the interior, as previously supposed.