NEWS BY CABLE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 21, 20 August 1886, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, August 10. It is- announced in Berlin that the Powers interested iiave come to an agreement whereby no alteration can lie made in the status of the Samoan Islands without the concurrence of all the Powers concerned. It is stated j

I that ji Commission will he sent to Samoa with a view to arrungiug a ■ lasting settlement of the dfllicultv. : It is also reported that the German j ! and l nited States Governments advocate certain consult changes in j Samoa, but the British Cabinet is j opposed to the proposed alterations. Twenty thousand Socialists paraded ■ the streets of Brussels, demanding ] universal suffrage. I Mr Michael Davitt, addressing 20,000 persons in Chicago, said that

; lie hud abandoned the policy of ro--1 venge against England. | Sir Daniel Cooper, in a letter to the ' Times, urges the establishment of a 1 Federal Council, consisting of 80

members; each of the colonies and i Canada to be represented by four members. A sculling match for the championship of England took place to-day between Neil Matterson, of Sydney, and George Perkins, of Kotherhithe, i which resulted in the defeat of the j latter.

Serious rioting occurred yesterday morning at Belfast between large b dies (if Protestants and Catholics, an 1 resulted in one person being killed and several wounded. The military w, re called out and the rioters were disp. rsed. London, August 17. The New Zealand Midland Hallway will be commenced from Greymouth. it is reported tliat the Messageries Mari times Company propose to es- I tubiish u fortnightly steam service to Australia sliorily, tlie Govermnont h.ivii ■’ promised to double the sub-

sidv. It, is also rumoured that the I’. and 0. Company liavu under consideration a proposal to establish u regular service between Antwerp and Austra- ; li i. which will lie superior to the Ger- ! man colonial line. Mr David Cuchanan has written a 1( tier to the 1 >nily Chronicle, in which Imperial 1 ttion, and

predicts an early independence of Australia. No further disturbance has occurred at Belfast since the riots on Sunday morning last and the town is now in a tranquil stale. August 18. It is reported that M. Francois Grew retires from the PresMedey of tiie French Republic, and that he will I*. uicc.' dee, by M. de Froycinet, the • pn ent Minister of Foreign Affair . The title assumed by Sir R. A. ] Cross, Secretary of State for India, ' on bis elevation to the Peerage, is Baron Cross instead of Viscount War ringtnn as previously intimated. Cai’Ktown. August 1 (!. Intelligence is to band from Beclmanaland that Lieutenant Betliell, of the Mounted Bolioe, lias been foully murdered by Kaihrs, while lie was out

hunting. CitiCAoo, August 17. The Irish National Conventiou nns ts here to-morrow. It is stated I that discord has arrison between the i ( Banicllitos and the dynamite party. Mfkoi'hnk. August 17. Operations at the Victorian Sugar Works have been suspended, pi tiding a revival in the sugar trade. August 18. In the I legislative Assembly last

night, a formal resolution approving of the Budget was voted. During the lilting Mr Gillies, I‘rentier, made a statement to the effect lluit the Yiet'.rin Government ihetuod it uiiiiipi ■ to a k «till* r iiloui'tol

renew a protest regarding the Nev Hebrides. The only satisfaalorr sole lion would be the fixing of the date the withdrawal of French troop* The ootonies, lie added, wore agr regarding the question of the infl , of criminals anti tiie prevention ol contamination therefrom. Sydnky, August 18. Mr G. K. Pibbs lias resigned In position in the Cabinet as Colonial Secretary, owing to a difference of opinion with his colleagues with re ference to the propos<vl establishment of a statistical department.