BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7957, 30 August 1887, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. CABLE MESSAGES.

[from reutbb and other sources] . DUFFY'S HOME'RULE SCHEME. London August 29. Sir Gavan Duffy, who has devised a Home rule constitution, proposed that there should be a house of Assembly, members of which to be nominated, and also a Senate, the latter to include the leading Oatholio and Protestant ecclesiastics. The sovereignty of Her Majesty the Queen is to be recognised, and peasantry are to be allowed to purchase land on deferred payments. WHEAT MARKET. The wheatjmarket is inaotive. New English crop ranges from 80s tb 84s per quarter. Foreign sorts are quoted • at lower prices, and Australian cargoes on spot, 34. New Zealand are sell* ing at from 80s to 84s. No forward sales are reported. Off-coast cargoes are valued at 82s. The harvest is almost completed. -. HOP CROPS IN EUBOPE. Eeports of the Continental hop crops vary to the extent of the yield. CHOLERA IN KENT, Numerous deaths have {occurred at Milton from cholera. i CIVILISATION OF AUSTRALIAN NATIVES. The Pope and the Propaganda have forestalled the Protestant missionary organisation by accepting the offer of J the New South Wales Government of 850,000 acres of land to any mission having for its object the civilisation of natives. The Daily Telegraph blameß the supineness of the Anglicans in allowing the Pope to take the initiative in oivilising the natives. GLADSTONE'S APOLOGY FOR BOYCOTTING. During the course of his speech on the Irish National League, Mr. Balfour said that a slight extension of Mr. Gladstone's apology for boycotting would justify assassination. Five thousand persons had been boycotted, but these were an insignificant fraction of the sufferers by this unparalleled system of tyranny. FRANCE TO HAVE NEW HEBRIDES. There is a growing impression in England that the Government intends to disregard the protests of the Australian oolonies against the occupation of New Guinea by France. COLONISING CIRCULAR. Sir Henry Holland has addressed a oiroular to the colonial Governors on matters relating to colonisation. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. The death of Lord Doneraile from hydrophobia is announced. He had been under the treatment of M. Pasteur for 'the disease. POWER OF IBISH NATIONAL LEAGUE. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gosohen and Sir E. E. Webster made speeches of remarkable power in referring to the Irish National League, and showed that unbearable espionage and tyranny had been practised by the League. Eleven hundred agrarian crimes, 10 murders, and 126 oases of arson iiave ooourred in nine months without any convictions being recorded, owing to the power of the League. Lord Hartington and 47 Unionists voted with the Government, and Mr. Chamberlain and 6 Unionists against them. ] REMAINS OF NAPOLEON 111, The remains of Napoleon have been removed to the mausoleum at Farnborough.. THE NEW HEBRIDES 'QUESTION. Paris, August 28. The Frenoh Journal de Paris, in an article on the New Hebrides question, says that the agreement concerning the control of these islands awaits the exchange of signatures. It oonsiders that a joint naval protection would result in oontinual conflict, and resents the withdrawal of France in obedience to the yelling of the Australian colonies. MONOPOLISING BRANDY TRADE. Berlin, August 28. A brandy ring with an immense capital is endeavouring to monopolise the trade in Germany.