CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. [Pams ASSOCIATION TMiaSASiS, , London. The miners on strike in South Wales have appointed delegates to aslc Mr Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, to intervene between them and employers. Earl Duoraven suggests arbitration with two assessors, and the miners are willing to accept this method of settling the difficulty. Further serious riots have taken place in Galicia. Mobs sacked the Jewish quarters in the towns of Altsandee and Neusindee, but were eventually dispersed by cavalry. Count Okuma, succeeds Count Ito as Premier of J span. This is regarded as a victory for party instead of elan government. The fourth series of colonial wool sales opened on Wednesday. Corapetion was brisk and prices ranged from par to five per cent, advance as compared with the closing sales of last aeries.

Jacomb, Baxter and Balme’s joint catalogue represented 119,636 bales two thirds of which was New Zealand wool. There was an excellent selection of crossbreds and indifferent merinos. There was a large attendance of buyers but no Americans were present. There was strong general competition, merino and fine crossbred* being sper cent above May rates, medium and coarse crossbreds w*re unchanged and weak. Sir H. Tozer, Agent-General, presiding at the annual Queensland dinner hoped that ere long a member of the Roval family would be Governor over a United Australia. He deplored the want of unity and hoped that the patriotism of Australia would come to the rescue.

Mr Chamberlain in the House of Commons referred to the New Guinea, syndicate proposals. He said that Sir vV. MacGregor bad reported that unless encouragement was given to a company such as that projected by the syndicate there was no apparent prospect of an early development of the agricultural resources of the island. He added that Sir W MacGregor and Queensland were responsible for the agreement. Captain Slocum’s yacht Spray, which visited Australia on a voyage round the world, has arrived at Rhode Island. The Appropriations Committee of the United States Senate has omitted the vote for the Canadian Commission. The newspapers strongly protest against the omission and urge the House to restore it.

In the House of Commons Sir Michael Hicks Beach moved the remission of the war loan granted to Egypt in 1897. Speaking on the motion he said immense results had been achieved at a cost of £1,850,000 and when Khartoum was captured it would probably be only necessary to retain a small British force in the Soudan temporarily. It w r as not contemplated to undertake large military operations for the recovery of the southern provinces Gunboats would keep the Nile open for trade and friendly relations would be cultivated. The motion was carried by 158 to 81.