ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5168, 15 June 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

i (Per Elsctbic Te&eoraph— Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) 1 {Received 10.15 a.m., June 13th.) ' THE POSTAL CONGRESS. Vienna, June 12. ' The Postal Congress has fixed the fee for international money orders at 1 per , cent, on the value sent, THE BEHRING'S SEA FISHERIES BILL. The Behring's Sea Fisheries Suspension Bill has received the Royal assent. ' THE NONCONFORMIST COUNCIL. Dr Allon ha3 been elected President of i tha London Nonconformist Council. GENERAL SHIPPING. Arrived — Invercargill, ship, from Wellington (March 19th) ; Soukar, ship, from Wellington (Feb. 28th) ; Coriolanus, ship, from Lyttelton (March 20th) ; Greta, ship, from Lyttelton (March 24th). (Received G.20 p.m., Juno 14th.) LORD SHEFFIELD'S ELEVEN. London, June 13. The cricket team which Lord Sheffield is taking out to Australia, will leave for Melbourne on October 2nd. Messrs A. E. Stoddart (Middlesex) and O. G. Radcliffe (Gloucestershire) have joined the team. THE LATE SIR JOHN MACDONALD. The memorial service in Westminster Abbey to-day, in honour of the late Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, was a remarkable and impressive ceremony. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of I Wales wore represented, and all the members of the Cabinet and a large number of members of the House of Commons were present. DEFENCE OF PORT DARWIN. Baron do Worms, Politicnl Secretary of the Colonial Office, has informed the Hon. Thomas Playford, Promier of South Australia, that all tho defence needed at Port Darwin at present is that sufficient to defend the places whoro the cables land. THE RUSSIAN JEWS. The statemont that a large influx to England of Russian Jews was about to take placs is denied. It is now understood that the Czar ia more favourable to the scheme suggested by Baron Hirach that the Jews should leave by gradual emigration, but is desirous that the time allowed them in which to quit tho country Bhould be reduced from twenty to twelve years. EMIGRATION OF ITALIANS TO QUEENSLAND. Rome, June 13. Tho Italian Government have cousentod to a nuuiborof agriculturists and experts in fruit-growing emigrating to Northern Queensland, and it is expected that about 350 seleoted in Piedmont and Lombardy by an agent despatched from London by Sir James Garrick, tho Agont-Gonernl for

Queensland, will leave for Brisbane towards the end of the month. THE CHILIAN REBELLION. Valparaiso, June 13. President Balraaceda has rejected the American proposals for an armistice. OUTRAGES bTcHINESE. I Paris, June 13. The French fleet in Chinese waters has been ordered to rendezvous in the vicinity of the Yan«-tse-Kiang river,owing to fresh excesses committed by Chinese rioters, and the fact that the latter are being arrested by Chinese troops. (Special to Press Association.) (Kecelved 10.30 a.m., June 13th.) COMMERCIAL. Washington, June 12. The wheat crop in the United States is estimated to afford a surplus o£ 200,000,000 bushels for export purposes. THE PANAMA CANAL. Pabis, June 12. De Leßsep3 and other members of the board of the Panama Canal Company, will be prosecuted in consequence of the last issue of capital being made when the company was known to be in a critical condition. THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. Ottawa, June 12. Sir Hector Langevin will probably bo requested to form the Canadian Ministry. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA. Moscow, June 12. The mayor of Moscow has ordered Hebrews to be excluded from the city hospitals. (Received G.20 p.m., June 14th.) EXPECTED INSURRECTION. Honolulu, June 13. It is especte that an insurrection will shortly break out in the Sandwich Islands. The conspirators are planning the capture of the Queen, unless Her Majesty agrees to a modification of the constitution and increases the power of the natives. THE LEPROSY BACILLUS. Calcdtta, June 13. Doctors Baker and Bucktnaster, of Simla, have been snccosaful in their endeavour to cultivate leprosy bacillus. ARREST OF ANARCHISTS. Vienna, Juno 13. Twenty anarchists, who were discovered with dynamite in their possession, have been arrested in the city. SUICIDE OF A FIELD-MARSHAL. Field-Marahal Wense, of tho Austrian Army, has committed suicide. The cause is said to have been poverty. GREAT STORMS AND LOSS OF LIFE. Violent storms have been experienced in Galicia, and one village has been entirely swept away. Seriou3 loss of life has taken placa. Fifty persons are known to have perished. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. • Napies, June 13. A severe earthquake has been felt at the base of Mount Vesuvius, and the eruption of the mountain is increasing. EXCESSIVE PAPER CURRENCY. Madrid, June 13. Many shopkeepers in Madrid are closing their places of business, as a protest against the proposed increase of the note isaue by Government.