LATEST CABLES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 5 (Supplement)

LATEST CABLES.

London, February 15. Lord Dunraven presided at a meeting of the Royal Colonial InstitutOj and in course of a speech made on that o<casion deprecated State Emigration; to the Colonies. The only danger pf the eventual federation of the British Empire was the possibility of the colonies giving better trading advantagei to foreigners than to the mother country.

! Paris, February 15. M. Fiure has resigned his position in the Ftench Cabinet.

1 London, February 15. The Jkltan has signed the Suez Canal Convention with some important modifications,

I Berlin, February 15. Ma^ Schroder, , speaking in the Reichstag, endorsed the advice given by Ul4 committee on the Socialist Bill that the measure be abandoned and the existing law extended.

( Rome, February 15. * A statement by M. Flourens that General Briaulton was inspecting the frontier to assure himself that the defences were secure has caused a iaeling of irritation throughout Italy.

- Sydney, February 16. A dreadful accident is reported from -Newcastle. Mr. Gillespie, an old man and a local preacher, fell down a shaft, a distance of forty feet, and lay for forty hours with a broken thigh before discovered.

Melbourne, February 16. The cars of the Melbourne Tramway Company will run as usual next week. The general opinion is that the strike was prematnre, and that the men had over estimated their strength There has been but little disorder in consequence of the strike. There was some mud throwing} and one of the Trades Unionists was fined for making use of abusive language.

Adislaide, February 16. The aborigines are reported to be troublesome in tie Northern Territory. Thfiy murdered two men who were journeying in a boat on. the .Roper River; they also destroyed th« boat. Further idyices state that two; Malays have been killed wad eaten »t Goyder.

Londok, February 14. In the House of Commons Uyd*y, the Hon, Mir 'Matthews, Home Secretary, admitted that the police had i blundered when they arrested Mr P. ' OBrien, M.P., instead of Mr J.Gil-, hooly, M.F. 'for 'Cork West, and he tendered an apology. Mr Morley moved that the question of privilege be referred to a. Committee of the House, but the amendment of the. Government, regretting the indignity offered to Mr OBrien, was carried.

London, February 14. The barque Ann Mcllicont, bound from Liverpool to Adelaide, has been wrecked at Timor, an island of the Indian Archipelago. The vessel soon became a total wreck, but the crew were rescued by a passing vessel/ and landed a> $ourabay,a, a seaport' 'town on the I north-east cpast, of Java.;, . |

I • ' » London, .February 14. j In the House of Lords the Earl' of Dunraveu has given* notice of a resolution in the direction 'of improving the /constitution 6J;the House of Lords. ,InV December '.lasjfrttjlie Ej^rl of ; t l?un- : Uaven . suggested^ tnat T . the „J EJouse of ;Loi*d9 'should cbnsist of i» hua^red ' rneriibe'rs, elected from the Peers of the realm. t ..•-... •,;■>,»

'{,' '"\ \j Wellington, this day.' ... Sir^F. ip. 3geil r ja a !cable, message to the Premier^expres'ses the opiniojj-that peace will be maintained.