CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

London, August S. In tlic House of Commons to-day, Mr Smith, replying to a question regarding: the State -aided Colonisation Scheme, stated that the Government were unable to guarantee advances to settlers, and douhted whether the Colonial Governments would approve of any arrangement which would be profitless. The Imperial Government, however, would invite the Colonial Governments to co-operate with it, since it was unable to propose to Parliament a scheme for a guarantee.

London, August 9. In ccirsequence of M. Ferry's refusal to firo Tnoie than one shot, General Boutavwger taunts him with cowardice.

London, August 7. A fire broke out last evening on the premises occupied by Whiteley's Universal Provider, situated in WestVwurnc Grove, Bayswater, and has been raging ever siine. The whole buildings are almost gutted, mil it is ieared but little of the enormous stock ■wdl be saved. The origin of the fire its attributed to an explosion <jf gas. By the great conflagration at Whiteley's Universal Providing Stores three persons were killed and many others received injuries of a more or less serious nature. Mr Whiteley has expressed his firm conviction that the lire was the work of an incendiary. The premises and stock were almost uninsuied. The loss occasioned by the fire at Whiteley's shops, Westbourne Grove,is estimated at half a million sterling. Two thousand persons have been thrown out of employment by the disaster.

London, August S. A conflict has occurred between -some Orangemen and Nationalist excursionists near Belfast. Three persons were shot, and the train was wrecked. In the House of Commons laso night the Irish Land Bill w«s read a third time without a division. A fresh wiit of error h«s been granted in the case of ""VT. L. Maxwell, convicted of the murder of Preller, at St. Louis. The probable Tje9iiit will be that the execution will be indefinitely postponed. The naval squadron -under the command of Admiral Freemaiitle, which, after capturing Fahnouth -called in the direction of Dover,succeeded in eluding the defending squadion ur.der Admiral Hewitt, and captured tiro entrances to the Thames and Medv.^.y. An engagement took place yestenlay evening between the two squadrons in the Downs, during which two^Mordenfeldt guns being used on board :the Curlew and Black Prince burst, snda number of seamen were injured. Latest intelligence from the "West Coast of Africa states that Stanley, with the expedition for the relief of Emm Bey, reached Arawhma Falls on June lSth. A strike of engine drivers of goods trains on the Midland Hallway commenced at midnight, and trains are jiow standing at various points on the Company's line. Mr St. John, the backer -cftGaudaur, states that he instructed that oarsman to lose the race against Haslan because the terms of the agreement had not been complied with.

Melbourne, August 5. Serious floods are continuing .in this colony, and it is feared that within a few days the Goulburne ValJey will be visited with the most extensive and disastrous inundation ever experienced. Afc a meeting of the National Ineurance Company of Australasia, iheld to-day, it was decided to discontinue business in New Zealand, owing to the heavy losses that had been made .in .that colony.

Paris, August 59.. The official journal of to-day s&n/nounces that Mr Egerton, Secretary ifco :tl*e British Legation, had an interview yesterday with M. Flourens, Minister of foreign Afifairs, at which he asked •that a date should be named within which the French forces would -evacuate the New Hebrides. M. iFlourGßs stated that he was unable to reply precisely so long as the intentions *of England with regard to Egypt and ihe proposed neutralisation of the Suez <Uana! .remained undisclosed.

London, August 10. Tihe Cabinet is now considering the of formally proclaiming the Motional League, and will probably arrive at a decision on the point at to-morrow's meeting of the Council. At Naples two deaths have occurred from elwlera.

London, August 9. Sib J, Fergusson stated in the House of Commons that England had not consented to the French demand to make the evacuation of the New Hebrides contingent on an agreement to neutralise the Suez Canal. Two despatches had recently been exchanged between France and England on the subject. Keplying to a question in the House of Commons last night Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secretaiy for Foreign Affairs, stated that the British Government were pressing France to come to a speedy settlement of the New Hebrides question. He further informed the House that no recidi. vistes had been deported since November last, but settlers continued to be sent from France to the New Hebrides.