CABLEGRAM.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2717, 4 February 1892, Page 2

CABLEGRAM.

(Per Press Association.—CopyrigjJl (by submarine cable.) LONDON, February ill

T/ie Times expresses tbe hope j Queensland |will retract and J apoloil so that friendly relations with the b| may be renewed. It deplores the pd bility of Imperial and Aus'ralian inter] suffering from the misunderstar ding 1 News comes from Calcutta that I natives of Rangoon have resolved to J mote the Mahommedan religion in u I land. Chili is raising a loan of five miliij in order to withdraw the notes issued! the late President Balmaceda.

February } Baron Hirsoh is favorable to tbe estt j lishment of a Jewish colony in Westt Australia, provided be is assured that] will be countenanced both by the Gore 1 ment and the people. Tire modus vivendi agreed to with' spect to the Behring Sea dispute will » bably bo renewed for a year, pending t I result of the new arbitration. The Bristol bootmakers’ strike has bt | referred to arbitration. All attempts to tow H.M S. Victoria i have so far failed, but the Admiralty o 1 cials are hopeful of eventual success Obituary—Colonel Sir Herbert Saa ford. At the wool sales crossbreds mainti their prices firmly, but other sorta t weak. T he G l f rman steamer Eider is fillis and no hopes are uow entertained t saving her. The crew of the s s. Eider were reset

as well as the passengers. « le l t- Shareholderß of ttle Standard B« of Melbourne readily responded to thic for assistance, and expressed a desire to business should be resumed. The butter market has seriously s A portion of a shipment of Vi

tori an factory-made was sold for 112 s; 115 s per cwt. „ a o he fu neral service of the late Rev. I H. Spurgeon will be held in the Preebr terian Church at Mentone on Thuradu In the meantime the body has bet embalmed and the coffin will reach Lm don on Monday. The remains will i

interred temporarily at Norwood, si finally at Stockwell. Lord Salisbury addressed a large meel log at Exeter Hall last night, the atteni IOOOn estimated at upward. . 10,000, Eefernog to Egyptian affaire,b

3 said that the new Khedive, Abbas Bej would follow the policy of his late fathr • 2 i on . th e la |> d question Lord Sali.br j declared that the Government were wn » an *!?us to multiply the number of .mii ; holdings. Ireland was still the burniM > question of the day, and he warned tbe people of England that if a separate Pet I Lament were sat up in Dublin it wo.II produce a result which would compel tbi , whole world to declare that England we in a. state of senile decay. He appeal* to the country to avert that crowning calamity and disgrace. Throughout hit address Lord Salisbury made no referooct whatever to dissolving Parliament befon the date on which it will expire In effluxion of time. In the case of the Pacific Mail Compuj v. Roberts judgment has been reserved. further assistance has been sent to tb Stranded warship Victoria from Melt. I Constantinople, and Patras. February & In his speech at Exeter Hall Lori Salisbury said that the approaching gene ral election would only be the beginning i iP, rotracted struggle. If Englt.il lacked the nerve and manliness to control Ireland then one by one the flowers wool! be plucked from the diadem of the Em P'.re until Great Britain stood alone. f ko late Rev C. H. Spurgeon’s body after its arrival in London will be placed m the Tabernacle for three day., »od I durlD ß ,hnt period memorial services will be held. The Prince of Wales sent « message to Mra Spurgeon expressing deep sympathy with her in her bereavfr I ment. Messages of condolence are being I received by the widow from every deneruination in England, the United Stetet and Australia. Dr Parker, of tbe Coo- | «3'«fc atlo “al Church, in a letter to Tht I limes , eloquently eulogises tbe late Mr bpurgeou. CALCUTTA, Feburary 2 The ruing at Pahang, near Penang, *■ suppressed, but the leaders fled inti tbs | jungle and escaped capture. PARIS, February l . The French tariff i 8 expected to increase the imports of English goods. Ihe dispute with Bulgaria over the expulsion of tho French journalist i» closed, and amicable relations have beea renewed. BERLIN, February 1 The Education Bill CO w before tbs Prussian Diet places t‘ie schools under tbe control of the clergy, and has excited Ditter opposition.