LATE CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1293, 20 July 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, July 10. Earl Rosebery has Intimated that he would be prepared to sanction stringent enactments to prevent an influx of the reoidivistes to the Australian Colonies The Congress of Chambers of Commerce now sitting tn Loudon, has appointed a Committee to consider and report up’n the practicability of carrying out a scheme for the federation of English and Colonial Chambers of Commerce. The subsidy paid by the French Government to the Messageries Steamship Company has been renewed, but some new conditions are made. The most important of these are that the Company are only to use steamers built in France, and only to use coal obtained from French territory ; while freights have |been so altered as to give grea'er advania’ea to French producers thin to those of any other Company. July 11. Some of the leading French newspapers denounce the proposal which has been made that France should cede the island of Rapa to England in return for the New Hebrides July 13 Mr Jesse Ceilings has delivered an address, in which he exhorted the agricultural labourers of County con atitnencies to oppose Gladstone, warning them that if he should be returned to the Home with a majority of his supporters, settlement of the land reform qnostion in England will be seriously delayed. The inaugural ceremony in connection with the opening of the British and Colonial Temperance Congress took place yesterday. The opening .sermon was preached in Westminster Abbey by the Bishop of London. A lecture on the naval defence of the Empire was delivered at the United Service Institute. Sir Thomas Brassey, in propounding his scheme, proposed that the Colonies should contribute a fair subsidy towards the cost of protecting their shores. He suggested also that a sufficient number of Anstralian cadets should be admitted into the Navy to provide the local squadron with officers ; that a Naval College should be established at Sydney, where the cadets shonld be educated, and that they shonld afterwards see active service, and finally Joe required, before being placed in responsible positions, to pass an exemlnation before s aval experts in England. Sir Q. Bowen, who formlerv filled the position of Governor In several of the Australian Colonies, wcs present at the lecture, and expressed bis concurrence with Sir T. Brassey’s scheme.