CABLE MESSAGES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5185, 4 June 1885, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

• • '; [Rbutbr's ; Telegrams;] •" I ,'..,'., •■'■•' (Received i Juno.M,;l-aim.)J ;''/'"' ,/V; ioNDCffl,June2. The homepi'd: lAptralian- mails' dated Melbourne, ■■ 'April" 21sty j per Peninsular and Oriental Oo.'s Khedive were delivered here to-day, ' via' Briti,disi.'.The 'mails :per|!MessagerieS.Maritimes 8.8.' Sydneyi;.; : April 25th,; were'also, delivered i to-day. v.!-!>■•-■■ ;, iBbMBAYy Junß^.'"; Telegrams announce ! bßabV ajevere' earthquake;lias; the. district,'of Cashmere,' causing heavy, loss of- life.. '■:■. '.;' ■■: ,'.■.■•::-:•;• i;')_."."Cairo,Juried: : The 'second' battalion"of the ' East Surrey Eegitrient, en' rbute'tb England from the,! Soudan, have been: disem., barked at Alexandria. •■''•"'■• ..;'.'! j. ~ :, .; :;.,- ■■. LONDON, June 3. : The various despatches which have passed between the New Zealand and Home Governments on the subjeols of the recent Maori embassy have: been published. Among them is a memo* randum from the New Zealand Ministry, dated March 28th, which declares that there is nothing in the memorial presented by the embassy which' had not been previously satisfactorily answered by the colonial Government.

The' following ''specials" to the Press Association lmvo been published :~ London, Juno 1, '.' It is understood. that' Mr;, Dalley, Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, has refused,, and Mr Alex, Stuart, Premier of tlio same colony, has accepted tho profiorod honour of knighthood. ;■■- . :■.•■.

, No colonial appeals to the Privy Council will; bo argued until November.

'_ The majority of the Powers are persisting in their endeavours to internationalise tho Suez Canal despite England's guarantee to maintain iW neutrality. , The Suez Canal Commission are proposing rules for the control and working of the canal, which will: sen-, .oiisly affeofc British shipping interests.' One hundred thousand ironworkers are out on strike in the United ;Staljes. '':A Book'oh'the'iighari 1 question ;has' been issued, tlie'tenorof which' displays the unyielding'attitude of Russia,' and the feebleness '< shown byJJQord Granville in the: parleying on thataifficVilty.^': ' ;'^"'„.:>. L", An Adelaide.'four, per cent, loan of £1,560,400; has been with the : minimum fixed ;at' : £98 10s. 1 | Tenders will be opened:on"- June :9th. "'"; .The Chamber of Deputies have approved of the terras of the Egyptian Gohventiotii ; •■•"■•

;jt js asserted that, the "Vatican and .England Have approved of the nohrina. tionof Archbishop Moran, of Sydney, to the Archbishopric of Dublin. I: ;