LATEST INTELLIGENCE. British and Foreign Telegrams CABLE MESSAGES

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8757, 19 April 1890, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. British and Foreign Telegrams CABLE MESSAGES

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COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

London, April 18.

It has boen decided that the governing body of the Imperial Institute slwll contain thirty-five colonial members, including eleven representatives from North, America, twelve from Australasia, three from Africa ; the other dependencies, including Fiji, making up the remaining nine members. Tasmania and Western Australia are allowed one representative each, while each of the otker Australian colonies send two. GOVERNORSHIP OF NEW SOUTH *ALEB Lord Oarrington will return and resume the Governorship of New South Wales at the end of five years. Marquis Lothian is still regarded as his immediate successor. PUR'^JASN O¥ TILPURY t>^ KS. The Orient Steamship Co., Sir Donald C'urrie, and others arc parleying for the purchase of the Tilbury Dock*, and they alsorliopc, in the event of the purchase being completed, that they will be able to make special terms with the dock Liborers. LA k T YEAU'B BRITI3R EXPENDITUkE In the Budget Mr Goschen puts the expenditure last year down at £BG\O<S:S,OOO. The receipts exceeded the estimate by three millions. GOSCHEN '* BUDGET PRAISKD. The ingenuity with which Mr Goschen has constructed his Budget meets with g«ueral praise. AU-<rRAI fiN iif-JOKET TOUR. The following is the eleven selected by Lord Sheffield to play against the Australians in the opening match of the tour: — Messrs W. G. Grace, Newham, StodJart, W. W. Read, and Attewell, Shrewsbury, Briggs, Peel, Humphries, Lohman, and Pilling or Sherwin. BXJIOEkJS OF ATJ.STRI.IIN A(TdESS. Miss Myra Kembles** matinee performance was successful. She has been offered a regular London engagement. GUNBOATS F')B AFRICA. Orders have been given for the construction of two gun boats, suitable for the navigation of the Zambesi and Shire rivers. BKDUOI'ION IMO°ESIN PISTAGB. Mr. Goschen stated that the reduction of the ocean postage to 2^d would cost £1 05,000 for the complete year. Mr. Eaikes, the Postmaster-General, will enter into negotiations on the subject with the colonial Agents-General immediately. MISIKG DISrURBAVfE IN GERMANY.

Berlix, April 18. The disturbance created by the Silesiiiu miners still continues. 40,00* > miners are pillaging villages and menacing townsmen, and are also preventing hands engaged at various factories from going to work. Thus compelling factories to cease operations. There have been repeated conflicts between rioters and military, who were called out to restore order, during which many of the strikers were killed and wounded.