HOME AND FORIEGN.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 4

HOME AND FORIEGN.

’ TK,t * Copyright.) ere ch Colonies. I’amh. September 29. A portion of Ereycinet', ip*cb in »lit' it he Male* that the French Governno nt ih (1.-trniiiried to retain thoee c- -t-nj.-H winch they already posneiui is K* t" rally construed to refer to the Madagascar, not the New Hebrides. Sorts, September 28. General Katilbars has intimated to the R renry that if the meeting of the Grand Assembly is not delayed the Ittisaian Government will regard the decisions of that body as invalid. CONFIDENCE IN THE CZAR I September 29. General Katilbars, Russian diplomatic agent, has urged the people of Bulgaria to put confidence in the C/ar.and denounced the Regency. HUNGARY OBJECTS TO PROTECTORATE. Pkst, September 80. M. Tisza, President of the Council of Ministers, has announced that Hungary cannot permit any foreign occupation of, or protectorate over, Bulgaria. TIIE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. Ottawa, Sept. 29. In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, a credit vote of £90,000 was pr ip • 1 towards the fun 1 which is being rat 1 for the establishment of an Imperial Institute in London.

AI'STKALIAN NEWS. THE SEAMEN S STRIKE. Sydney, Sep. 29. At the Mercantile Marino Conference now proceeding here the shipowners’ repres« ntatives have completed their rase, an It li g iti -of th" employes aro now engaged stating their’s. NEW HEBRIDES. Intelligen o is to hand that a French lt itary [ •: has been formed at the New Hebrides. CABLE CHARGES. The intended increase in the charges f r til. -rani - between Australia anil New 7.i aland from the Ist prox. is meeting with great disfavor here, and it is prohath.- that t' Government of tins colony will 1 1 urgi Ito pun with New Zealand in reiiewn ■ the subsidy in order to securca reduction of the tariff. SHIPPING. September 80. Manapotiri sailed this afternoon for Auckland. SEAMEN’S STRIKE. Tin Mercantile Marine conference has beiii adjourned for a month (lending the settlement of the que-tioii which the emph vet a ii.ivi agreed to snbmit to arbitration. COMMERCIAL. Mt-I.BoI'RNE, Sep. 28. Memir* Goldsbroiigh and Co. have received the following report respecting the London wad market, under ilato September 28th :—“Market weaker for all di ripti ns except crossbreds, which are a pi tiny higher than ut the opening of the pri -ent series. Scoured generally have fallen Id; g 1 scoured, from Id to ljd ; . r ire i v menu Id lower than at

the opening of the present series. THE REVENUE. « r, 1 . . i Revet ii of thia eiilony during the quarter ended yesterday, amounted to X 1 ..‘*Bo,lloo, an increase of -t'112,00 as compared with the September quarter la • \i ar but £90.000 below the quarter's pr ■; >rt. n of Truo-urer’s estimate for the current year. I Special to the Melbourne Age.) London, Septemlier ti. The Russian Press repudiate the rumoured occupation of Port Lazareff in the < r* a. ,\ French vessel is, however, ' oneying I,'>oo Russian emigrants from \•eb , i%, an lit is ex|«cted that they are soldiers in disguise. September 7. I rd George Hamilton has refused to pt In e the otln ial riqiort of the cruise of H V.S. Diamond, when engaged in pun- ■ 'lung natives in the South Sea Islands 1 r the murder of traders towards the end of last year. Mr Gladstone has written a letter to Mr N rton, the trade labor delegate from N s > *uth Wales, thanking him for the ad In ■ which he delivered in sup|H>rt of t‘ 11 .lie Rule policy of the late Government. September 8. A lull authorising the Bank of South Australia to extend its operations and o| n t ranches in other colonies, was read a hist time in the House of Commons yesterday. September It). I d unes and the Chronicle have both I il .. di« i leading article* relative to the • m.-d military occupation of the New Hebrides bv France. Both journals in- - si that the French Government should be called upon to refrain from further aggression ui the islands. September 17. Mr Gladstone has intimated his intenl ui of extending general support to Mr Parnell in connection with his efforts to obtain Home Buie. 1 Iward Haitian has issue.) a challenge to Reach. Ilanlan offers to row Beach on the Tyne for I'SOO in October. Haitian excuses his absence from the international sweepstakes rowing matches on the ground of illness. It is slated that Beach is certaiu to decline the challenge.