FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3576, 17 March 1886, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Pkb Exsotrio Teieqraph— OotrstHttT.) (Reuter's Agency.) [Beoeived noon, Maroh 16th.] MR GLADSTONE'S SCHEME FOR IRELAND. London, March 15. Mr Gladstone lias submitted to the Cabinet his proposals for the settlement of the Irish difficulty, but they have not yet been made public. It is reported, however, that they consist of a scheme for the expropriation of Irish landlords, at a cost of two hundred millions sterling, also the establishment o£ an Irisb Parliament m Dublin. (Boooived 7.15 p.m., Maroh 16th.) A CONSPIRACY CASE. The adjourned case against Richard and Walter Belt, charged with conspiracy to defraud Sir William Nevelle Abdy, of the sum of £5000 was concluded to-day. Richard Belt was sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labor, Walter Belt being acquitted. (Special to the Pbess Association.) [Received 12.45 p.m., Maroh 16th. i AGENT-GENERAL OF VICTORIALondon, March lfv Sir Andrew Olark will assume the Agent-Generalship of Victoria pending the arrival of Mr Graham Serry. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. The Oxford crevj are favourites for the University boat race against Cambridge at 2 to 1. ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE. The itoyal Colonial Institute hassanctioned the purchase of a site for a; ne;,v building. , AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. The following additional matches' have been arranged for the Australian team : — Against North of England, at Bradford, on 6th September; ant? against the South of England, at Brighton, on 9th September. PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY. Applications for the position of Pro*" fessor of Chemistry at the Victorian University, will be received np to the" 29th March.