FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3584, 26 March 1886, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Pea Electric Tbleoeaph— CoPYßiaHT.) (Renter's Agency.) (Received 1.30 p.m., Maroh 25th.) LONDON MEDICAL HALL. London, March 24. Her Majesty the Queen to-day laid the foundation stone of the new Medical Hall, on the Thames Embankment. There was an enormous attendance of spectators, and the' ceremony was of a most imposing character SKILLED ARTISANS FOR THE COLONIES. Lord Salisbury (? Granville), Secretary for the Colonies, has written to the Agent-General asking whether if a number of. skilled artisans are induced to emigrate, the colonies would receive tbem, and what contributions they would be prepared to make towards the expenses of such emigration. MR JOHN BRYCE. Mr John Bryce is a passenger by the Tainui, which leaves to-morrow morn« ing for New Zealand. (Special to the Press Association.) (Reoeived 12.45 p.m., Maroh 25th.) BANQUET TO MR CHARLES TODD. London, March 24. ' The Cable Construction Company entertained Mr Charles Todd, Post-master-General of South Australia, and the several Agents-General at a banquet. THE SEE OF MELBOURNE. It is reported that the Right Rev. Ernest Wilberforce, D.D., Bishop of Newcastle, will succeed Dr. Moorhouse as Bishop of Melbourne. A CHANGE OP GOVERNORS. It is believed that Sir William Jervois, Governor of New Zealand, will be appointed Governor at the Cape, and that Sir W. C. F. Robinson, Governor of South Australia, will succeed him m New Zealand. TBE PANAMA CANAL. Mr Ferdinand de Leßseps states that the Panama Canal will be completed m 1889. FRENCH CONVICTS. The English and German Governments are maturing an invitation to the French Government requesting them to refrain from establishing penal settlements m the Pacific. SIR ALEXANDER STUART. Sir Alexander Stuart visited Ottawa for the purpose of negotiating with the American Government respecting the proposed cable to Australia. Sir Alexander Stuart is expected to arrive m London early m April to fulfil bis duties at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. [Reoeived 9.50 p.m., Maroh 25th.l A SOLDIER'S GRIEVANCE. London, March 25. Considerable sensation was caused here to-day by a soldier, who had been discharged, throwing a petition setting forth his grievances into a carriage m which Her Majesty the Queen was riding. The man was immediately arrested. THE BULGARIAN DIFEICULY. The Sultan of Turkey shows signs of yielding to the demands of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, m which he requests a life Governorship of the latter country, instead of a term of five years. FIGHT AT KASSALA. An engagement has been fought at Kassala between the Abyssinian troops and the Arab rebels. After a severe struggle the latter were defeated, many hundreds of them being killed.