LATE CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1280, 5 July 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[“ AGE " SPECIALS.] London June 22. Mr Bryce, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question in the House of Commons, stated (bat despatches received from tb o French Government proved that they recognised the binding nature of the ex'ting agreement bet seen France and England, and affirming the independence of fie New Hebrides. The conduct of the Government of France respecting this matter la perfectly candid. June 23 Me Berry is short y to confer with Lord Bosebery on the subject of mutual concessions between France and England. The principal object of the conference is

to ascertain whether any arrangement, likely to be acceptable to bi th parties, might be proposed, whereby France would evacuate her possessions in the Pacific on consideration of the English Government ceding her territory elsewhere.

Mr George Collins Levy, 0.M.G., Secretary for the Jubilee Exhibition to be held in Adelaide next year, statei that it has been ascertained that the report that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales contemplates visiting Australia next year is a pure invention. June 24.

There being no probability of the Prince of Wales being induced to visit Australia to open the Jubilee Exhibition, it is now in contemplation to invite one of the sons of the*Prinoe of Wales to pay another visit to the Colonies to perform the ceremony. It is believed that either Prince Albert Victor or Prince George might be induced to accept the invitation. June 27. It is considered probable that the pro posal to establish in London a Colonial Museum will be abandoned inconsequence of the coldness with which the project has been received. Mr Gladstone addressing a meeting at Manchester last evening, referred to the I improbability of his being able to long continue to take an active part in politics, owing to his advanced years, and intimated that liord Rosbery would probably succeed him In the position of leader of the Liberal party. A desire has been expressed by Her Majesty the Queen that the Colonial and lad an Exhibition should continue open until the celebration of the jubilee of Her Majesty’s accession to the throne, which is to be held, in London in June ner year, Jane 28

The bestowal of the newly announced honors to Colonists was quite uuexpeced, and Mr Berry and the other gentlemen, upon whom the honors hive been conferred, were ignorant th.t honors »e'e to be tiven them until tie Dct was announced ia the newspapers. The first official announcement they received on the subject was conveyed by an autograph letter from the Prince of Waks, wh’ch subsequently reached them Mr Bosisto, who was cffjred the only Companionship of the order of St Michael and St George, dorsidered himself entitled ti Knighthood, and therefore declined the honor. Jone 29. The proposal which has been made for the o tab'.ishmeut of a German-Colonial bank has been taken up with spirit, and good progress ia being made with the prolimira-ies A tour, to Include the principal places of interest in England, has been organized by a party of colonial visitors. Yesterday they visited Oxford, whore they were hospitably entertained by tbt Mayor. In tho course of the banquet which wss given in their honor, Mr Davenport made a speech, in which ho referred in condemnatory terms to (he desire expressed on behalf of Ireland for political separation from England. 'I he p»r y, after leaving Oxford, proceeded to Leamington, in Warwick, where they were warmly welcomed by the Right Hon Mr Peel, Speaker of the House of Comm ms.