LATE CABLE NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3682, 21 July 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Pbb Pbbsb Association.] (Per s.s. Tarawera, via the Bluff.) London, July 10th. Earl Rosebery has intimated that he would be prepared to sanction stringent enactments to prevent an influx of the recidivistes to the Australian Colonies. The Congress of Chambers of Commerce, now sitting m London, has appointed a Committee to consider and report upon tho practicability of carrying out a scheme for the federation of English and Colonial Chambers of Commerce. The subsidy paid by the French Government to the Messageries Steamship Company has been renewed, but somo new conditions are made. The most important of these are that the company are only to use steamers built m France, and only to übo coal obtained from French territory ; whilo freights have been so altered as to give greater advantage to French producers than to those of any other company. July 11th. Some of tbe leading Fronch newspapers denounce the proposal which has been made tbat France should cede the island of Rapa to England m return for the New Hebrides. July 18th. Mr Jesse Collingß has delivered an address, m which he exhorted the agricultural labourers of county constituencies to oppose Gladstone, warning them that if he should be returned to the Houso with the majority of his supporters, settlement of the land reform question m England will be seriously delayed. The inaugural oeremony m connection with the opening of the British and Colonial Temperance Congress took place yesterday. The opening sermon was preached m Westminster Abbey by the Bishop of London. A lecture on the naval defences of the Empire was delivered at the United Bervice Institute. Sir Thomas Brasßey, m propounding his scheme, proposed that the colonies should contribute a fair subsidy towards the cost of protecting their shores. He suggested also that a sufficient number of Australian cadets should be admitted into the Navy to provide the local squadron with officers g that a Naval College should be established at Bydney, where the cadets should be educated, and that they should afterwards see active service, and finally be required, before being placed m responsible positions, to pass an examination before naval experts m England. Sir G. Bowen, who formerly filled the position of Governor m several of the Australian Colonies, was present at the lecture, and expressed hia concurrence with Sir T. Brassey's scheme.