CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5326, 2 August 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

i » [Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.-] [Special to Pbxbs Association.] THE SPEAKERSHIP. LONDON, July 31. The report that the Government ■will not oppose Mr Gully as Speaker is confirmed. MISSING. The barque Cumbrae, of 1356 tons, Captain Fisher, which left Newcastle, New South Wales, with a cargo of coal for Valparaiso, on Feb. 23, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. RESIGNED. August 1. Sir E. B. Malet, British Ambassador ab Berlin, has resigned from the diplomatic service, owing to ill-health. The Emperor of Germany expressed great regret at his retirement WOMEN REPRESENTATION. The Wesleyan Conference, by 187 to 169, refused to admit women dele- [ gates. The Rev Hugh Price Hughea considered that the refusal was not a wise step, and was one that would involve agitation, therefore, for the Bake of peace, women delegates might have been admitted. MINING. The "Woodstock Gold-mining Company, of New Zealand, with a capital of £150,000, is issued. The working capital is £40,625. GOLDBBROUGH AND CO. The directors and committee of debenture holders in Goldsbrough and Co. have agreed upon a scheme. The committee will issue a circular urging holders to accept it as the best arrangement possible under the circumstances. ARMENIA. Great Britain, franco and Euseia are entirely in accord in pressing reforms upon the Sultan. . AN OFFER BY CANADA. OTTAWA, August 1. Canada has offered to carry the New Zealand mails across the Con* tinent for two years gratis. BECHUANALAND. CAPETOWN, August 1. In the Cape Assembly Mr Cecil Rhodes Baid the Imperial Government had spent two and a half millions upon Bechuanaland, which it now handed over without obligations, and surely the Cape ought not to act churlishly regarding the conditions. Mr Saver, who moved an amendment that there should be no change in the status of the protectorate without the consent of the Cape Parliament, said that in the en' counter Mr Chamberlain had got the better of Mr Rhodes, and virtually constituted himself a member of the Caps Cabinet, by insisting that conditions Bhould be imposed.