LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 93, 8 March 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

■■ - t . ♦— By Electric^ Telegraph.— Copynght. ( PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, March 7. Sir James F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, 18 urging upon the Imperial Government that a sovereignty ■ over the New Hebrides should be pro- ' ' claimed. Lord Xnutsford. (Sir Henry * Holland}, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has replied that shortly an entire protectorate will be proclaimed. 1 Sir F. D. Bell, the Agent-General for ' New Zealand, has received over fifty ap- j plications for the Chief Commissionership : i of the Bailwav Board, wnich the late seasion m New Zealand decided should take '"- control of : the New Zealand railways. The selection will be made shortly. •-[ The Postal Department have arranged "\ that the colonial mails via San Francisco shall be despatched from here on Saturdays in future instead of Wednesdays aa heretofore, this Baving three days, owing to the faster service in the Atlantic. Mr Pearson, who brought Home the South Australian rubies, states that a powerfnl syndicate has offered to purchase the McDonnell Company's ruby mines in Australia. - The Company offer £200,000 ■* one-half of the amount to be paid in cash, and the remainder in shares; The crofters charged with rioting at Lewis, Hebrides Islands, have been tried and acquitted, the Crown being unable to prove their identification. ' v :. Constantinople, March 6. % The Porte has sent a Note to Prince Ferdinand that his election to the Bulga- \ rian throne is illegal. Mozambique, March 5. Intelligence has reached here of a disastrous hurricane which has been experienced in Madagascar. The gale was felt with extreme violence on the east coast of the island, and the town of Tamatave, which is the chief commercial port of Madagascar, was laid in ruins by the force of the wind. Eleven vessels were wrecked in the harbor or on adjacent reefs. The extent of the casualties is not . yet known, but at Tamatave 20 persons were killed by falling debris. Stdnbt, March 7 Carroll the man who murdered his wife on Saturday afterndon and then attempted suicide by cutting his throat, has died in the hospital from injuries selfinflicted. Bbisbane, March 7. A deputation has waited on the Premier urging that the most stringent regulations should be enforced on Chinese landing in the colony. In reply the Premier * stated that Queensland, along with the other Australian Colonies, were powerless to adopt a policy of exclusion while England's relations with China remained unchanged; '/ ' '