CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 247, 17 March 1888, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

Lokdon, March 10. Mr LaboucUcro's motion, protesting against tlic principle of hereditary legislation, was rejected by 61. The Giadstowians supported the motion, and the Marquis of Hartington op- : posed it.

London, March 10. Tho Franco of Wales will attend the oVequies of tho late Emperor of Germany. The reply from the Emperor Frederick to President Carnot's racisa^o ot condolence is of a coidial nature.

I London, Maich 10. The steamer City of Corinth has been sunkollDungcness through comins; into collision with the barque Tasmania. Twenty-nine lives were lost.

London, March 10. The copper syndicate's profit on the years transactions will bo IP- million.*. They declare that tlio fear of oveiproduction is unfounded.

Lovpox, Match 10. Her Majesty the Queen dines with the Prince of Wales tonight in honour of his silver wedding.

London, March 10. The Right Hon. John JMorley urges the Irish National League todfetiibuto tiacts in the colonies Petting forth the j aims for Homo Uulo for Ireland.

London, Maich 11. Mr Pearson, of South Australia, has sold four of the original blocks in the Mount McDonnell ruby mines for ,£200,000.

Loniiok, March 11. Tlie "Economist" estimates a budget sin plus of two millions.

London*, March 11. The "Times" taunts the Pi i nee of Wales with patronising cattle drovers and piize fighters.

London, March 11. The Prince and Princess of Wales received numerous presents on the occasion of their silver wedding. Seveiul provincial deputations also conveyed congratulations to them. Her A'lajesty thc'Qtieen visited Marlborough House yesterday morning. Everything was conducted in a subdued manner, and the banquet was attended by members of the Royal Family only.

London, March 11. Mr Goschen states that he has no fear that foreign complica'ions will compromise his conversion proposals. He also believes that the scheme will ultimately effect a saving of £2,800,000 annually.

London, Match 12. Severe gales have been experienced in the English Channel, and seveial of the Boulogne steamers narrowly escaped being wrecked near Folkestone. Telegraphic communication with the Continent is interrupted. Three of the Brixton lifeboat crew were drowned on going off to the wreck of a vessel named the Syria.

London, March 12, Another account of the fight between Sullivan and Mitchell says that it was a brutal and disgusting affair. The conibatants were mauled terribly, and their bodies shockingly bruised. Each had an arm and several ribs broken. At the close of the fight both men were arrested by the gendearmes, and are now in custody.

London, March 12. Mr Henniker-Heaton, in his paper read at the Colonial Institute, declared that the postal loss on a penny sea route would be within ;£! 5,000, without allowing for the increase of letters if such a proposal were adopted. He advocated a reduction of the Continental charges to a half-penny, and said that the Colonial Conference had not uttered a Avoid of sound criticism of his proposals. He denounced the oppressive cable monopoly, and advocated the Imperial and colonial purchase of the Eastern Extension Company's lines, and the construction of a Pacific cable, thus enabling the establishment of a shilling tariff. London, March 12.

In the House of Commons, in reply to a question from Mr W. Johnston, M.P. for Belfast, Sir James Fergusson, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, promised to produce the papers relating to the cession of Eaiatea t to France,

London, March 12. Colonial stocks are inflated. New South Wales three per cents, are £106 ; fours, £l\L Victorian fours are £113. Mr Goschen's conversion scheme pro- j vides for the conversion of one hundred I and sixty-six millions of new three per cents., sixty-nine millions of reduced three per cents., and one hundred and twenty-three millipns worth of consols, redeemable in fifteen years at a percentage of 2f; or in twenty years at 2£, It mVges th'e f different stocks into one. Holders of'thjo new tKree per cents, are 'offered, three per cent, foy the current : . yetay'and two, and 'thred I ' quarters pcr 1 1 'eeptLfpr'tJi^ next fourteen at the endipt" wjhdchj^eriod-th^ interest will be redueedUo two. and » p-htul p'er.cei^.' The Utter fate will -prevail till the lex'pi^ijn of th^jiwentiethjyear. $$<}#' . p^d off m v ,capOfj ,% end of to year's; time ; must; signify, ,t^ieir^ Wi«fe*bSr Marcli &9th'. >^Holders xof consols and reduced 3 per ceni& are offered similar terms, with the addition of a 5s

cash bonus, and Is Gd for brokers. The conversion proposals will aftect five hundred and fif ty-oight million pounds' worth of st.ock. Mr Gladstone applauded tho scheme, and expressed the opinion that much public benefit would result from it. All tho newspapers speak in favourable terms of it.

London, March 13. The tone of the reply sent to the Sublime Porto by the Government of Bulgaria is very decided. The Bratiano Cabinet in Roumania has been re-formed. England and France both decline to adopt the objections urged by Tin key to the canal convention. Signer Crispi, the Premier of Italy, states that Italy's policy in Bulgaria difi'uis from that of Germany. Loid George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiialty, has stated that the IJritish Navy is 40 per cent, stronger than that of Fiance.

St. Petersburg*, Starch 11. Xc\v<s has been received here from j Central Asia that the railway has been completed as far as Bokhara, and the lirssl train has reached there.

Kome, Maich 11. King Humbert met the Emperor Ftedcrick William at Genoa, ami the latter looked faiily well.

Paris, March 10, A ii^ht has taken place between Mitchell and Sullivan at Clmntilly. The match was fought in the open air, and rain fell during its continuance. There were thirty rounds, and the fight lasted three horn's, ultimately resulting in a draw.

Sylnky, March 12. Two fatal tramway accidents have occuned recently. In one case a man and his son were standing on the step of a car, when they were knocked off by coming in contact with a telegraph post on the road to Botany. The father had his brains knocked out, and the son was internally injured. In the second case a woman stepped in front of a motor at Newcastle, and was cut to pieces. She was somewhat deaf, and it is presumed did not hear the approach of the engine.

Sydney, March 13. Michael Carroll, aged 40, a gaswork labourer, gave himself in custody today, stating that he had murdered his sweetheart near Woolwich, England, 10 years ago. The girl's name was Mary Ciouston, and she had quarrelled with Carroll, refusing to have anything to do with him. The prisoner subsequently made an appointment with her in a lane between Deptford and Woolwich, and when she came he struck her violently on the head with a hammer and fled. The girl was found next morning alive, but she lingered a few hours and died. A. man named Walter Pook, a printer, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime, and most circumstantial evidence was adduced, but he was acquitted, nm'.l great indignation. Can oil let the story out in a drunken fit, and eventually asked for a policeman to give himself up. He also admitted serving five years at home for badly assaulting a gas manager. The man has been a soldier and deserted twice. He was recently concerned in a sly-grog selling case, and is generally a bad lot. He was examined by a medical man, and found to be suffering severely from a drinking bout, but he told his tale circumstantial^, and was very minute in the details.

Sydney, March 13. Burke, and Foley have been bound over to keep the peace in a bond of ;£IOO. During the hearing of the case it was elicited that the projected match was abandoned three weeks ago, and both mon protested against the bond, but without avail.

Sydney, March 13. Companies are being formed to work the Poolamacca ruby mines in the Broken Hill district, The stones are small, but larger ones are expected to be found.

> Sydney, March 13. 1 Mr Sianley, Government Veterinary Surgeon, reports that the mange that has broken out amongst sheep in the ! northern,, .part of the Colony of New South Wales is contagious and very diffioult to eradicate.

Sydney, March 13. ; The "Sydney Herald" states that ! the iron manufacturers will reject the proferred locomotive contract, finding that it would be impossible to execute the work except at a loss.

Sydney, March 14. i The voteof censure on. the Government, moved by M r Bibbs -has been rejected by 47 to 11. . , . . The Board of Health have received intimation that since the enforcement of quarantine regulations at Port Darwin, all vessels containing Chinese immigrants are pent direct to Sydney. The Board has resolved to enforce strict quarantine here. Lillj white's cricket team leaves for New Zealand on Saturday. Messrs Shrewsbury, jLillywhite, Smith, and Brame Will not return to England untill- after the football season.

Melbourne, March 13. Twelve hundred and fifty-six students have joined tjie Working Men's Col1 lege. •<

Melbourne, Match 14. < ihe^Goverament. agricultural statistics give 13,300,000 bushels\of wheat, or Van' 'average of' 10.8,; ,' oats, 4J millions, ' ov ,<in av^ge, #f 22.7 bushels.,-, .j,^.. ■ , ' -j< „••.-' j THe Governor/ received a.Aeitegxxm "imp: 1 $lq ,?rince\ if scales ..the' colony, foiv.his silver . wedding! <s(ji^ "gtfttulationSk .'!"« f• '« «s» »•- -« - . IH> Several scientific bodies express the

opinion that Pasteur's microbes will destroy native and domesticated birds and animals. The disease is said to have been prevalent in Victoria twenty years ago, and was only eradicated by killing every fowl infected.

Brisbane, March 13. The gold yield for the ye&v is estimated at 411,000 ounces — 70,000 more than last year.

Brisbane, March 14. Sir Thomas Mcllwiiaith has issued an address to the electors, in the course

of which he blames the land laws for the condition of the colonial finances. He urges the exclusion of Chinese, and denies that he has any wish to encourage the importation of coolie - labour. He states his belief in Australian federation, but is opposed to the Naval ] Defences Bill. The cry for separation raised by North Queensland will, he thinks, be met by the extension of the principlesof local self-government.