HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 280, 5 April 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MR ARNOLD MORLEY TO BE CREATED A PEER. THE LABOR PARTY IN QUEENSLAND. THE HUSH QUESTION. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. COLONIAL MEAT IN HAMBURG. HOME POLITICS. DISASTROUS FIRE AT SHANGHAI. (FEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. April 3. The World is responsible for the statement thai; Mr Arnold Morley, Post-master-General, is to be raised to the Peerage. At a banquet at the Australasian Club, Sir Saul Samnel presiding, Sir Thos. Mcllwraith, in responding to the toast of "The Colonies," said that personally he objected to the principle of universal suffrage. He realised that the Labour Party in Queensland "was fast obtaining power, but he thought there was no reason to distrust the leaders of the party, and he believed they would use discretion in dealing with questions affecting the welfare of fcheir fellow-men. Mr John Redmond contends that the attitude of the Government concerning the Irish Question has betrayed the reduced power of the party, and he advocates an early dissolution. It is understood that the Parnellite Party has officially withdrawn its support from the Government on questions affecting the stability of the Ministry. The scheme formulated by Mr J. H. Geddes, of New South Wales,' for the disposal of frozen meat at Hamburg is answering very well. Eight hundred customers purchased Australian and New Zealand frozen meat from one shop on Saturday. In the election for tho Wisheck seat, Mr Brand {defeated Mr Sackville by •1368 to 4227 votes. The division on Dalziel's motion in favor of Home Rule for Scotland was a party vote, though the Government left the question open. Mr Balfour ridiculed the motion. The Welsh members intend to move an amendment to Sir Gco. 0. Trevelyn's amendment that the Bill affecting Scotland be referred to a Grand Committee of the Scotch members, providing that a similar privilege be granted to Wales. A telegram from Marseilles states that the Prince of Wales attempted to enter a moving train, at the city railway station, and narrowly escaped sustaining senious injury. The engineer stopped the engine in time to prevent an accident. PabiHi April 4. The Prince of Wales was standing on a carriage until the train started, and then he tried to jump in. Hong Kong, April 4. By a fire in Shanghai a thousand houses were destroyed.