News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 9, 25 June 1886, Page 9

News of the Week.

Fbidat. The Joint Jubilee Committee of both House* have reoonuaendad that the following address be adopted and signed by the respective Speakers and member of both Houses of Parliament :— Moat Gracious Sovereign,— « We, the members of both Houses of the Legislature of New Zealand in Parliament, assembled, humbly desire to be permitted to convey to your Majesty our warmest and most respectful congratulations on the occasion of the jubilee of your Majesty s distinguished and illustrious reign. We do so under a deep feeling of gratitude to Almighty God for Daring so long spared your Majesty to be the instrument of so much good to the vast Empire over which your Majeßty has been called upon to reign. We believe that in no part of the Empire is there a warmer feeling of loyalty than in this Colony, and we venture to hope your Majesty may be graciously pleased to accept the assurance of devoted and dutiful attachment of the people of New Zealand. n , The wool sales opened on Wednesday. The joint catalogues of Charles Balme and Jacomb and Co. comprise 12,700 bales. Onethird are New Zealand wools and one-third from New South Wales. There was a large attendance of bidders, and the bidding was excited. Merinos showed an advance upon the last sales of from 20 to 25 per cent., and crossbreds ranged from sto 16 per cent, higher. Foreign buyers made large purchases. in view of the approaching general election, the Conservative party has decided to nominate a candidate for Midlothian in opposition to Mr. Gladstone, and have nominated Colonel Walker to contest the seat in their interests. The recent suicide of the King of Bavaria caused considerable excitement in Bavaria, and sinister rumours are current concernine the new King, The seizure of the American fishing Bmacks by the Canadian Government will form the subject of an inquiry by a joint commission. Ihe general elections in Nova Scotia have resulted in the return of candidates favourable to the separation of Nova Scotia from Canada. Saturday. In the House of Representatives yesterday, the House went into committee on the Gold Export Duty Abolition Bill, which was r i? po *, W1 a . t al ameQdm ents and ordered to be considered on Monday.— Sir JVogel moved the second reading of the East and West Coast and Nelson Railway and Railway Construction Amendment Bill. He said the House was so well aware of all the circumstances connected with this railway that it would be unnecessary for him to go into them. The present Bill was brought in to provide for some modification of the contract made by the Agent-general with the company. He thought the modifications were such as the House t°nl d rrot. ot "Hwonably object to. The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment. v J The Invercargill municipal loan of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, at 4£ per cent, has been placed in the market „ hl^ee/?hocksh I^ ee / ? hocks of earthquake were reported to have been felt at Sheffield , Canterbury, on Thursday. In the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Bryce Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question, stated that M de Freycinet, the French Premier, had renewed the assurance eiven previously that France would respect the independence of the New Hebrides but that Lord Lyons, British Ambassador, had been instructed to call attention to the fact that hoisting the French flag in that group had occasioned great excitement in the Australian colonies Mr Bryce further stated that the captain of her Majesty's shin Undine had been ordered to proceed to the New Hebrides and report to the Government as to the actual state of affairs in the group Sir Robert Herbert, Permanent Undersecretary for the Colonies, informed Mr. Graham Berry, Agent-general for Victoria, that the Government had decided to forward a request to the French Government that the New Hebrides should be evacuated by its troops as soon as the fear of outrages on French subjects had been removed. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Edinburgh to prosecute his electoral campaign m Midlothian. On his journey he was met with ovations at various stopping places. Reports to hand from the Northern Territory prove that the best route to the Kimberley goldfield is by way of Cambridge Gulf Three hundred men who are now at Port Derby are unable to proceed , to Kimberley owing to the want of water. The Marquis of Hartington has issued an address to the electors of the Rossendale division of North-east Lancashire, in which he argues that it is necessary that Parliament should represent the whole kingdom, and that powers conferred on subordinate bodies should be delegated and not renounced, the right of control beine reserved to Parliament. His Lordship further contends that suck bodies should administer justice by the authority of a responsible Parliament. r Th« chief of the Badashaws, in Tartary, has seised and confined Colonel LKJCkbardt s party, who were engaged upon the work in co»nection with the delimitation of the Afghan frontier. It is stated in Paris that five massacres have taken place in the flew Hebrides, and that, although troops were landed, there waß no formal hoisting of the French colours. Monday. t Th t S ° uthla ?<i NeK * »*»tes tbat but for the prompt *«!«& of James Fabey, a lad 10 years of age, at least one life would hare been lost m the recent fire at the Shamrock Hotel. The lad ia a iteDttm of the proprietor, and was awakened by the stifling smoke befotette alarm was given. He immediately went round to all the rooms on tht upstairs part of the house, and having wakened the occupants by kioktuf »t the doors with hu bare feet and knocking with his hands, he tried* get downstairs, but was prevented by the thick smoke and fianrae. Be then went to the back window, raised it, and jumping on to alea a to

was enabled to reach the ground, and thereby obtain entrance to th P lower part of the house by way of the back door H ere he w£ at all the sleeping apartments, first waking his father who not recognising the danger at the moment, told the youngsUrto go to bed-that he was dreaming. Young Fahey thea rushed into hi° mothers room, and. after rousing her, seized the baby ia his arms *&££ b'Ued 0 tbe Btreet ' biß Dight - dreßfl W »* the only SSSTS A correspondent of the Christchurch Press at Tauranea says •— inrton^L™^ ? the Btuff e 3 ecte * durin J the eruption. It amounts in round numbers to 5,000,000 000 cubic varrfs weighing 6,000,000,000 tons, which is, after all, not 'qS Tone c* bic fmnnJ Ft?* \- maU Cavity « bnt [t would take 4 more than the Snno D t tlOnal debt ° f En & land t0 e «*vate it. It would «£ £ good w orkman one million ars 8h ™ wh P n^ rou ft ndl , nto . cart 8; yetall was done in four hours. The stuff when washed, shows glittering particles of mica and little pieces of STXt? crystals Sanguine people imagine th^W wfrril • diamonds, and are anxiously awaiting analysis. » failnre o? th«?.£ c <JU °°™ [y &Te Seriousl ? conc^ned at the «&."££& Z^^r™" 0 dißlrib "' iOo °' E Bdmb»;S laa lfc n . e»e »i a fh re * Bedap ° bliomeetiD SoS o '' Ba'"«i»y night at Sere relSWd ?hi »?" MOOIIV " II ° ed "' c pe °P la o£ Or «* »»•'■> o s TSse ?n arri^ySß^^tff!^ lIL I L^ Vißionar y-Tbe Marquis of Salisbury spoj at XL| h B t f he co^ B6^^ 8 B P eech he denied tb a^e wps an advocate of law aid Tn l dandl - He BtEted - that he deßired the due observance thoselnfavni f ° C °-T n t0 jure the Conseryati. es to support tnose in favour of maintenance of union State fot^r 3 ? ° f L,°rdßL ,° rdB ° n Friday Earl Kimberley, Secretary of Sat^d tvi t! 1 reP 7*S a^ UU u 9tioa P ut by the Mar£ l uis of Salisbury, IWinrt "ti FFry^ yyy h D p' Bn - tlßh Ambaßsador at Paris, had seen M. de of^ the SrS.l n? t? t^' 6lll^ Wb ° Btated he had not been inarmed ShlPrt nn w f i , reDCh flag at the New Hebrides. But he had iW him ffTh f - d f y laß , fc tO tbe Gov ernor of Ne^ Caledonia, instruct. oftWh The°Ho^T Of i^ fla r> h , ad been PffeCted !t 8ho » ld cease eStes thaf thp ni ? ' • l Ce V Under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, nature P g6S gIVeQ 7M< de Fre y cinefc «c of a reassuring . Tuesday. s£rS rd °'^ n ' X ' E?^ Mr Lra mfd f* 7 ', he , bI " t fr °S £1 "» 6a UWM PropOßeThat the W £, per acre paid for land should be reduced to 10i Be explained the agreedT' 8 ' 0118 ' he bilL Tbe moti ° n for thli • Konii ' e " di °S to Smr^S c much longer death would have resulted. He had bee7ordpr P HT c &Ct ° f "cleanliness, and the older boy had *£ Cnt i Wa l h u 1 m ' The Mayor sent the letter t0 the Orphanmatter ' baS ° rdcrcd a searchi °g inquiry into the notJfnr^S I ? 6^ WCTG bus y 0D Saturday exchanging bank alo/e it/r fi nn° Se ab ° Ut t0 proCeed *o Fimberley, and in one bank alone over 600 soys. was paid over the counter in two hours. nounSu2 I S?n Sf UrCb - iU haß iSBUed a mani^to in which he dc and exhort, %? f 8 6g ° tlßm and Benile vamt y oI Mr - Gladstone PrPmS tSp CCtOrB -° OTerthrow the disastrous autocracy of the UniSr Mr^^^^^PPortthecandidatnre of 80 Liberal the Z J»: TGT G ! adßtone . w his speeches in Midlothian, urges that Parliament Wtrf 011 mUBt be eitber Coercion or a DubliQ burv 3 Mr ?L K lfc r erly PerßoDal toWards the Mar q uis of BalisMhaJ?n c w 'fSX? Tl D>^ d CoDdemns Lord Hartiogton's scheme Sid tha?l,P i™ w^ ty T Tbe Marquiß of Sali sbury, in his Leeds speech, Si^olli r lj l COerCe the crimi^'-s in Ireland. He was Enera?d a nSTfV°^ lg^ Vernmentno^ only to Ireland, but also to maudHn Jnw * He cntlcißed wh^t he called Mr Gladstone's party. ° ptltnißm ' and repudiated all coquetting with the Parnellite audaSfufonfhwf ract ?™ MJM J- Oilstone's speech as a specimen of audacious quibbling, in the face of notorious facts, on the main orga^rX'Sedta^i.^r'"' 1 ' ° fl '^ M U^ Armagh and Tyrone have been " proclaimed." it will not necessarily mean that they will haul it down now. T Wednesday. r» 4 ax. i* . House of Representatives yesterday, the Gold Exnnrt «d 7 pa^d ltl0 S. a^ Mining Companies'B.lls we^'read^third tZe BUI The mot L^ 1^ reSnme f tbe debate on the MidlaQd Eail way £UJ^ The motion for the second reading was put and carried by 52

In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Bryce, Under-secre-tary for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government did not intend to depart from the terms of the Anglo-French agreement respecting the New Hebrides. Thubsday. Two earthquake shocks (says the Daily Times) were felt in Dunedin about 6.17 a.m. yesterday. The first one was rather severe tbis part of the Colony, and those who experienced it state that it rattled glasses and crockeryware. The second was very slight. The duration of the first shock is stated to hare been from five to ten seconds, and the apparent direction was from north to south. Our Fort Chalmers representative writes that two smart shocks were also experienced there, lasting ceveral seconds. It will be seen by the telegrams that the shocks were experienced throughout the whole of Otago and also in Canterbury. H.M.S. Undine has arrived at Brisbane from the New Hebrides. «r c -^ pta i. a v StateS that no OCCU P ati °Q or annexation of the group by the French has taken place, and confirms the statement that outrages bave been committed on French subjects. He reports that the French a *uBSSeenu 8 SSeen. een hoißted over the French store at Savannah harbour, and the British flag over M'Leod's store. Commander Cross further generally confirms the statements made by M. de Freycinet as to the French position in the New Hebrides, The general elections for the new Imperial Parliament will commence on the Ist proximo. Mr. Gladstone has returned to his seat at Hawarden. On his n^ v " c was received with ovations everywhere en, route from JSdinburgh to Hawarden. He claims absolute freedom in regard to the Irish land-purchase proposals.