CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Mr Cecil Rhodes, Premier of the Gape, addressing the shareholders of the British South Africa Company, said there would be no more fighting with the Matabele in the future. The Customs Union of the whole of South Africa was, he said, certain to be affected. Mr L. A. Jessop, in a letter to the Standard, declares South Australia is sailing dangerously close to the wind in the matter of borrowing, aud repudiation is inevitable unless bondholders cease lending. A cable published announcing the estimated deficit of a quarter of a million in the New Zealand revenue has occasioned surprise and uneasi* ness in the city. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company is applying to the Court to be made the receiver iv the estate of Miles Bros. The Italians have occupied Hurud

in East Africa. It is reported that Slatin Bey has escaped from the Mahdi. Some newspapers assert that a probable loan of twenty-five millions will be asked for when Parliament meets to estaWish. coaling stations in .- the Mediterranean. The state toetft that Loud Bf&ssey intended to decline the Governorship of Victoria owing to the redneech salary is denied. . ... „. Mr Sounby Harrison, of Liverpool, : ; states thai; the trial shipment of 1 rabbits was spoiled owing to the length of cutting for paunching. They should only be opened two inches, otherwise they cannot {be ac I cepted. The heavy freight , charges { compel them to reduce the offer to ' - 8d a couple. Lord Bosebery, in his Cardiff speech, said that the discontent among the Liberals was merely on the surface, and that they had a good working majority. The general election, the Premier said, would probably take place in the immediate future. >•<« A labour agitator wrote to Lord Ripon that there were 50,000. <« unemployed willing to emigrate if they were granted free or assisted*, passages to the colonies. Lord*: Eipon replied that the projeot ; was -,-> •'. impracticable. At the election for Eveaham Mr i\ Long, the Conservative candidate, i defeated Mr Impey, Liberal, by 47805* . votes to 8585. -<~#k The Borne correspondent of the « Daily Chronicle says that Cardinal 1 Vaughan's interview with the Pope convinced the latter that the hppes^ of a re-union with the* Anglican"' ' Church were much exaggerated, and : : without reasonable basis. The Pope has given up the proposed conference of Cardinals, and will not appeal to the English Cbuicb. . . *"■' Cardinal Vaugban told the Pope* he expected an increase of converts to Catholicism from the Ritualists.*