CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 1

CABLEGRAMS.

The anti-tithes agitation in Wales is extending. A slight disturbance occurred on Tuesday, when a crowd assaulted ii)Q officials, and the . assistance of ' the police was called in to disperse the mob. London, June 1. — Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the resumption of diplomatic negotiations between Great Britain and the Vaticura.

London, June 3. Mr Gladstone is journeying in Wales. In the course of a speech, he said fchat England alone prevented justice being done to Ireland. He vaguely promised to assist with a view ; of obtaining the national aspirations of the Welsh people. Mr Gladstone's journey to Swansea yesterday was greatly prolonged by the ovations he received at wayside stations, where he delivered speeches entirely devoted to the Irish question. At a conference of the National Radical Union, held at Birmingham, i Mr Chamberlain said that the disruption of the Liberal party was irretrievable, and it would be essential to form a new combination to promote reform and resist anarchy. Lord Hartington said that the separationists' tactics were daily weakening the authority of j Parliament, and Mr Bright scornfully referred to the existing dual leadership of Messrs Gladstone and Parnell. A demonstration in honour of Mr Gladstone took place yesterday at Abbey, when a gathering of forty thousand Welsh Liberals formed in pro«ession and defiled before the late Premier in the Abbey Grounds. In two long speeches Mr Gladsone restated his position in connection with the Irish question. He declared that he was ready to hVotfify his scheme for the purchase of- land in Ireland by the State. He further-said that the exclusion of the Irish members from the Imperial Parliament might be left an open question, it being one which was subsidary to the great international question, which involved the cohesion of the empire and the happiness of the people.

London, June 5. Lopcl Eandolph Churchill addressed a meeting at Wolverhampbon last night. In the course of his speech lie declared that despite its enormous military expenditure England is wholly unprepared for war, and appealed to the Democracy to insist upon a radical reform in the Admiralty and War Office.

London, June 3. The directors of the Mount Morgan (West Queensland) are to be prosecuted for issuing a false prospectus.

London, June 8. Mr Gladstone arrived in London, from Swansea, yesterday. During the course of his journey he delivered speeches at Cardiff and the wayside stations. In the course of his address at; Cardiff he declared that 10,000 citizens of Melbourne had unanimously condemned coercion.

i London, June 8. In the Houeeof Commons last night the discussion on the Irish Crimes Bill was resumed. -In the course of the debate Mr Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, stated that it was possible the Jjrovecmn'on&would introduce measures for accelerating the business in connection with the Bill, but he expressed a hope that this would not be necessary. Sin William Vernon Harcourt made proposals, which were endorsed by,3£r Jparnell, to the effect that the House -should only discuss the | series of amendments to the third [ clause of the Bill, which was adopted without amendment.

London, June 7. In the House of Commons tin's afternoon, Mr Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, announced that the negotiations between the British and French Governments regarding the New Hebrides were still proceeding. He further stated that' the delay which had occurred in arriving at a settlement of the New Hebrides question was not due to the action of the Imperial Government.

Adelaide, June 8. The Government have granted certain remissions jn the sentences of prisoner in honour of the Queen's Jubilee, The West Australian Government have received a telegram from the Warden at Eimberley goklh'eld; stating that a thirfcyounce nugget has been found, and Mr Panton, the Resident at Port Derby, telegraphs that reports from the field are most encouraging.

Londox, June 5. A great sensation has been caused by the speech of Lord Randolph Churchill, inwhich he unsparingly attacked the administration of the English army and navy. He asserted that the expenditure was annually increasing without a corresponding increase in effectiveness, and millions were wasted every year in the most wanton manner through the utter incapacity of the officials and the grossest mismanagement. In 1875 the army cost fourteen millions' and a-half, while in 1886 the amount had swollen to eighteen and a-half millions. The naval expenditure had increased from eleven millions in 1 875- to twelve and ahalf last year. These enormous increases had been accompanied by a steady deterioration in fighting capacity. The English army only mustered 150,000 men. Germany and Franco, by an expenditure of twenty-one and twenty-nine millions respectively, were able to maintain a force of one and a-half million of soldiers in an equal state of effctivenfcs. The armaments of the fortresses of England were not to be depended on. Both cannon and ships were behind the age. The commis.siariat was faulty, and incapacity was rampant everywhere. As an instance, he cited the scandalous offer of officials to protect an important position of King George's .Sound Avith obsolete muzzle loaders. By making a thorough revolution in the personnel of the army and navy department, it would be possible to effect a saving of a million annually, and at the same time t-ecure improvement in both branches of the service.

London, Jane 7. Lord Harris, Parliamentary Undersecretary at the War Office, replying to Lord Eandolph Churchill's censure on the army and navy, stated that comparisons between British, German and French armies were unfair. The troops on the Continent were mainly conscripts, whereas the British army was made up of Volunteers. Naturally the former would be larger in numbers and cost less. He denied the charges of incapable management. He considered that the defence of King George's Sound was unimportant.