CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 37, 4 September 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I per united press association. [; London, September I. A Blue Book just issued on tbe Chinese question contains a despatch from, the - Marquis of Salisbury to Sir John Walsham, British Minister at Pelrin. The message ia dated 29 June, and urges the Minister to negotiate with the. Chinese Government- for a convention similar to that between America and China; nnd that it should be based on the lines laid by the Sydney Conference, In his despatch the Marquis of Salisbury. states, he is anxious that no measures adopted by the colonial Governments should be at variance with the, treaty. The adhesion of England, Germany, j Belgium. Spain, Italy, Holland, Russia, and Egypt to the Sugar Bounties Con«, ventibn- is unreserved. France, Brazil, j and Sweden reserve the liberty to join later on if they see fit. The Daily News, in a leading article, characterises the provisions of the new tret y as rauk Protection, and strongly denounces Mr Goschen for t(ie pvrt hu has played in the negotiations. The rumour that Chirm intends to invade Australia in 1891, when her armaments are completed, 1* being circulated in England. Sep' ember 2 The Wesleyan Conference has issued a pastorial address, which the English press generally regard as a striking sign of advancement in the direction of relitji'us liberalism. Members of the Wesleyan faith are urged to take a more active part in public affairs on the ground that stalwart Christians are pain* fully needed on education boards, municipal bodies, an>J, above all in Parliament. One hundred and fifty, soldiers aad two hundred police had to be employed in evicting a number of tenants unon the Clanricarde estates. Desperate fighting took pluce on the roofs of the houses, the police using swords and bayonets and .the defenders stones. Thirty-one arrests were made during- tbe proceedings. • " Mr Liwrie, of Sydney who baa been at Home for some time endeavoring to introduce 7 colonial timbers into the European, markets, has succeeded in obtaining some lurgeorders, including a trial siiipinentpn behalf of the German: Government fpr street paving in Ham* burg. A correspondent writing to the Times, says the arrogance of Sir Henry Parkes . in dealing with the Chinese difficulty in Australia has led to the rejection by China of the American treaty. Pekin, September 1. The Chinese Government have refused to ratify the treat r with America provid* ing for the exclusion of Chinese from the latter country. Washington, September 1. A conference of Republican senators has proposed that a tariff Bill should be introduced into the Senate to reduce the duty on sugar one-half, and slightly in*, crease the present duty on wool. Mr T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State for the United States. ha« directed that British vessels eiig-iged sealing in Be h ring Sea shall he allowed to carry on operations witliontbeing molested. The Senate is debating a Bill to be introduced in the House of Representatives to give effect to President Cleveland's views on the Fisheries question, - Ottawa, September 1. Mr Thompson, Minister of Justice in the Government of the "Dominion, assert* that the United States Government are required to give two years' notice before they can suspend the existing treaty. • i *£H§''"Hdn» Mr Thomson, Minister of Justice, declares that President Cleye* land's mrssage to the American Congress is evoking a national spirit in Canada, producing magnificent results. The < 'anadian wheat surplus available for exports amounts to between 22 and 24 million quarters. Capbtowk, September 1. H.M.S. Royalist, now attached to the Cape and West African squadron, will sail for Australia on the 4th inst. to join the Australian squadron, A severe gale has. been experienced in Algoa Bay, and seven vessels were driven ashore and became total wrecks. Great loss of life is reported. September 2. The Portuguese mutiny at Telogoa Bay was quelled without bloodshed. S?. Pktkbsbubo August 31. The Nihilists' have murdered a rich widow.residing in the city, who was. suspected of having betrayed their secrets to the police. The murderers left a kflife in the wound, on which wnn engraved »' Vengeance to traitors !" and decamped with 30,000 roubles. Rangoon, September 2. General Graham, with a force of 1800 troops, in making preparations to expelthe Thibetans from Si kkira. . Hambubg, September 2. It is estimated that the damage done by the recent fire will amount to L 5,000-. 000. Risks were held by English Insurance offices to the extent of L 1,000,000. < "X&riV& ''September 4, 12 20 p.m. Berlin, September 3. Papers written by the old Emperor WUliam relative to the leading and stirring events in his career, have been published by direction of the Eniper.>r. He ascribes the many victories he. achieved to Divine agency. ; Sttakijc, September 3. : " A trader' has arrived here with news that the Madhi's forces are paralysed by the receipt of a message frpm the White Pasha requesting the Madhi to abandon • Khartoum. - The message intimated that Khartoum is a British possession ; that the natives are not subject to .Egyptian rule ; and. that slavery would be suppressed. At the date of the trader's departure the White Pasha was only a few days march from the city.