LATE CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1317, 17 August 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

London, August 5. The question of the future Indian and Colonial Fxh.bltion Is now under consideration. It la suggested that the ExhlbitU n should be closed in two months and re-ope ied next year. An endeavour is being made to remedy the defects so apparent in some of the Courts. This proposal, however, is meeting with strong opposition, especially on the part of neitly all the Executive Oommisstoners, who are of opinion that it would be a prolongation which is unnecessary, and would be unprofitable. The proposed testimonial to the Prices of Wales In recognition of his services as President cf the Commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, has not been t*keu up quite so heartily as was expect, d. Up to the present there are only a few subscribers. The I Forld predicts that the Prince will decline the testimonial. The advccstes of Northern Queensland separation are making progress. At their request, the Earl of Dunraven has consented to infrodici an Enabling Bill into the Honse of Lords. L% Hejmbliquc Francaise has a lengthy article • n h |Sew Hebrides question. It declares that England wonts the inlands, and is therefore angry at the French Government, but It ridicules England s claim, and assert* that there Is not the slightest justification for it. France, continues the paper, has forestalled England, and baa practically annexed the la'aods. That being eo, *ho wil : never withdraw her flag or her troops, despite all that may be said about her action. A cablegram from New York says that there is a split amontsl the American members of the Irish Nationalists League, the New York branch denouncing Egan’s “ low ruffianism.” Feet of a row will probably attend tho Chicago convention, the proce.du'ga of which are expected to be stormy, as the extreme Nationalists 0 <mplain of the failure of the appeal to the British Perliament, and insist upon having recourse to the terrorism of dynamite. August 9.

TJjo National Liberal Federation League has just issued a manifesto in which the Liberals of the United Kingdom ace strongly urged to demand from the new Conservative an unreserved disclosure of its intentions with rsspcct to fcli® Irish question.