FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4525, 27 April 1889, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Rocoivod 7.20 p.m., April 'JUth.) SURPASSING NIAGARA. London, April 25. Lord Lonsdalo, who reached tho j Coaat of Alaska, on his walking tour to the arctic regions, declares that Alaßka cataract, on tho Day River, surpasses Niagara Fulls m beauty. The rivor falls are a mile and a half wide, and the water dcsconds a precipice over 200 feet deep. COMMERCIAL The wool market is spirited with an upward tendency. Tho price of frozau mutton and beef remains unchanged. COLONIAL TRUST SECURITIES. The address of the Federal Council on colonial trust securities has been forwarded to Mr Goschen and Lord Knutaford, and hopes are entertained that the result will bo favourablo. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. The Duke of Edinburgh has paßsed the crisis of his illness. THE OKLOHOMA SELECTIONS. A food and water famine hnß occurred at Oklohoma Reserve, where large crowdß have assembled m anticipation of being able to obtain selections of land. Great distress provails among the people, and thoso disappointed m getting land have encroached on the adjoining reserve bebelonging to the Indianß. The latter resent this eucroachment and have gone out on the war path. SERVJA. Belokauk, April 25. A meeting between Queen Nathalie and her son, tho young King,, will take place m a fortnight.

_ ENGLISH AKD rOEEIGH CABI.E. Ie (PeuEleotmo Teleohavu — CoPYinciHT.) re (Per Press association.) I 10 (Received 1 p.m., April L'Uth.) HOME RULE. London, April 20. j The Marquis of Lome, speaking at Birmingham, said that if Ireland accepted ir a system of Home Rule based on the same ,£ conditions as those obtaining m the „ colonies ehe would be financially cut off from England, and trustees would consoif quently bo unable to invest m Irish d securities. It would be cruel to treat j g Ireland like tho colonies, which, except ;, m name, are separate nations. I' CHEAP COPPER. ' Copper is quoted at £od. A number of c holders are arranging to sell their stocks ( 1 gradually. ,s GENERAL BOULANGER. ■a MM. Rochefort and Naquet and Count •- Dillon accompanied General Boulanger to a London. They were met at Charing '• Cross Terminus by largo crowds, who ' greeted them with mingled cheers and 0 hisses. General Boulanger does not intend to issue a manifesto at present, and will not remain m England beyond October. He 8 expresses himself satisfied with the heartiness of his reception. v SUPPOSED SUICIDE. '• Naples, April 25. 0 Mr Ashworth, British Vice-Consul m this city, was found dead at the foot of a T precipice near Vico, five miles from the d back of Naples. It is supposed to bo a 8 case of suicide. 11 (lJccoivedl.oOp.ni., April 2tith.) '• THE SUGAR BOUNTIES. ' London, April 25. 0 Baron de Worms is at present visiting a Paris with tho object of inducing the Government to accept the provisions of the Sugar Bounties Convention. , Tho Right Hon. John Morley, spe.ikinc at Newcnstle-on-Tyne, said that tho Oppo--1 sition would opposo tho Sugar Bounties 0 Convention Bill, tooth and nail. 0 ELECTORAL PROPOSALS. ■f- Referring to the electoral laws Mr Morley f Baid that tho next Liberal Goverutnont would appoint an official to enrol all a qualified voters. y UNIVERSITY HONOURS. y Thirty-six colonial Btudonts havo secured high positiom on tho honours lists at tho University nud tho Royal College ', of surgeons, Edinburgh. Two hail from r South Australia, three from Tasmania, f six. from Victoria, tun. from Now South . Wales, and liftceu from Now Zealand. 1 SAMOA. Berlin, April 2C>. j Tho Maytlcbuiy Xiituit;t demands tho punishment of tho Samoans on tho linos followed by England m Egypt, as one means of permanently pacifying the group. THE BOULANGER CHARGES. Pauis, April 25. M. Provet, Deputy for Soino-ot-Muroe, roforriug to a chargo made against Gonoral Boulauger m connection with an Australian tinned meat contract, Baid that tho contract wns publicly adjudged to M. . Pigeon, not to Count Dillon, who buing m , want of capital askod M. Provot to coi operate. i PARIS EXHIBITION. The envoys of tho Great Powers will absent themselves from tho corumonica at tho opening of tho exhibition, as a protest against the commemoration of tho revolution. A LITTLE WAR, Cai, i;ui T.\, April 25. A lintish expedition to Huurmuii river dostroyod Wiudeb, the capital, aud released threo thousand prisonors. THE TRAMWAY STRIKE. Viknna, April 25. Some Socialists joined m tho tramway riots at tho beginning of the wool;, and drcuchuti tho Boldiura with lilthy liquids. Tlio tniu|ia wcro with diliiuulty restrained fi'iim lii'iug nn them. Tho committee of thu'J'nwu Council havo decided to line tho Tramway Company 50,000 tlurino ou tho ground of itTU!:ularilien m tho tnitlic. Tlio city m quieting down.