CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

. ' • > London, August 6. Naval manoeuvres by vessels of the British navy have taken place on the •western coast of Scotland. During the operations Admiral Try on, in ' com rnand of H.M.s. Calypso, managed to elude the defending ship, H.M.s. JBlackadder, and captured the town of Oban. The' torpedo gunboat Spider, another of the attacking squadron, bombarded Greenock a,nd Gampbelltown. The commander of the Spider states that his tactics would have resulted in the destruction of the shipping at those ports. In connection with the naval ' manoeuvres on the western coast ofScotland, the attacking squadron, under Admiral Try on, raised the blockades, and his cruisers are now engaged in " harrying merchantmen off the coast.

London, August 6. The Parnell Commission will meet promptly to decide on the 1 method of working the inquiry, and the limitation' of the charges, it will then adjourn until October. in a letter to the " Times " Mr Parnell challenges Mr Chamberlain to publish the Irish Local Government and Coercion Bills which Mr O'Shea alleged he drafted, but were not accepted by the last Cabinet. Mr Parnell slates that in those Bills Councils were to be substituted for Parliaments

London, August 6. In the House of Commons an attempt; was made to revive the Hughes Hallett scandal, on a motion for the expulsion of the member for Rochester from the House, but the Chairman of Committees declined to allow the motion to be tabled.

Loxbon. August 6. Dr. Barry, Bishop of Sydney, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Stubbs as Bishop of Chester, the latter having been translated to the See of Oxford.

London, August 6. Tt is probable that a conference will be convened at Berlin te settle the Bulgarian difficulty.

London, August 6. In the cricket match with an eleven of Kent the Australians have scored 116; Jones, not out, contributing 24.

London, August 7. In the House of Commons, Sir Jas. Ferguson, in reply to a question, said theie wah> no hope that the French Government would agree to allow the Key. Mr Jones to return to the New Hebrides, from which he was expelled by the Fiench some time ago. Sir James said, further, that nothing had been proved aflfocJng the rev. gentleman's character, and he believed he had deen conducting a Christian and meiitoiious woik.

London, August 7. The Irish members of the House of Commons are protesting against the application of England for tho reprieve of the murderer Maxwell, and they compare this clemency with the treatment received by O'Donncll, the murderer of Carey, the Phoenix Park informer.

London, August 7. A fishing lugger has foundeied in a gale off Scarborough Nine fishermen on board were drowned.

London, August 7. The Government, have declined to recommend that, the convict Jackson, who murdered, a warder at Manchester (jlaol, should be respited and the sentence of death will be carried out.

London, August 7. In reply to Dr. Tanner, member*"for Mid-Cork, Sir James Fergusson said the Colonial Office had received no piotest from the Victorian Government, concerning the proposal to emigrate paupcis t.o the colonies.

London, August 7. Bisho;> Barry denies that he was offered the See of Chester.

London, Augusb 7. In the match with Kent, the Aus tralians have scored 95 for the loss of five wickets.

London, August 7. Mrs Gordon-JBailli" has been admitted to bail.herself in and two sureties of £250 each, i

London, August 7. The Higher (Joint has confirmed | the convictio*! of Mr Dillon, who had ; been sentenced to six months'impiipon- ' ment for au agrarian offence. ■ \

London, August 7. J The parleying for the establishment of a Biitish protectorate over North Borneo is still proceeding. j

London, August 7. John SchofieJrl has .succeeded Mr Joseph Chamberlain as Presidentof the | Birmingham Radical Union,. ' I

London, August 7. ' The "Times" has accepted Mr Parnell's challenge and has published the Irish Local "Government and Coercion Bills, which it is alleged wero n ot accepted by the hist Cabinet.

Berlin, Augusts. Severe floods are being experienced in the western districts of Russia, and also in some portions of Germany and Austria.

Berlin, August 6. The "Nord Deutsche Zeitnng" states that the alleged report of Prince Bismarck's statement's ou the' subject

I of theßattenber^,' betrotlialj published lin a Paris journal ? 'is a forgery.

Berlin, August 7. , The' " National ,'Zeifcung " publishes an article," iti wliichjt states that the connection betvveon the Australian colonies and England is daily becoming weaker. / '' * ' * - '

■-■ Paris, August 6. The navvies' strike is exteuding,to other branches of labour; and collisions with the police have been frequent.

Paris, August 7. The President, M. Sadi-Carnofc, has unveiled a statue of Mirabeau, ' at Montaigis. There was a large demonstration on the occasion and much enthusiasm was shown.

Rome, August 7. The eruption on Stromboli, one of the islands of the Lipari Group, in the Mediterranean, has extended until now the whole af the islands in the group are in actiye eruption. Foriunatelj', no loss of life has resulted.

St. Petersburg, August 6 f. 5 General Ignatieff, speaking at a banquet at Kiel, said, that x'ussia was gradually advancing to the westward, careless of the opposition of Austria.

Suakim, August 6. Intelligence has reached here to the effect that an Abyssinian force ha q been defeated by Dervishes with heavy loss near Gualbut.

Constantinople, August 6. ( Owing to the failure of the Montenegrin harvest, forty thousand persons have been rendered destitute, and are entirely dependent on charity.

Washington, August 5. General Sheridan, Commander of the Army, died to-day, aged 57.

Calcutta, August 5. Information has been receiver] that the Thibetans are invading Sikkiin.

Washington, August 6. Mrs Sheridan, relict of the late Geneial Sheridan, will be voted a pension by the United States Senate.

Washington, August 7. Senator Blair has introduced a motion affirming the desirableness of negotiating with England fora political union between the "United States and the Dominion of Canada.

Sydney, August 6. There is little hope of settling the shipping difficulty. The owners have merely acknowledged the receipt o the last letter from the Union, regretting the position taken up by the atter.

Sydney, August 6. A London letter announces the death of Capt. Beal, the pioneer of the old Panama line.

Sydney, August 7. News to • hand per British - India steamer gives details of a terrible fatality on board the steamer Clan Me, In tosh during the voyage from Liver pool to Calcutta. It appears that; noxious gas was generated among the cargo in the hold, and th« chief officer and three native seamen lost their lives in the attempt to disperse the gas. Thirteen other members of the crew were prostrated before the hold was cleared of the gas, but recovered in a few days.

Sydney, August 7. The match between the English football team and the Sydney Grammar. School Club resulted in a draw — each side scoring two uoints. It was & j splendidly-contested game.

Sydney, August 7_ The R.M.S. Mariposa has got al) her cargo on board, and is coaled, despiru the opposition of the Maritime Union. She is now ready for sea.

j Sydney, August 7. The ' Maritime Labour Conference have replied to the shipowners' letter of yesterday, to the effect that they decline to take upon themselves the ! onus of a seamen's strike, as they aie unwilling to allow them (the shi^ owners) to pose as martyrs. The Conference conclude thek sitting to-day, and are expected ta make a recommendation that will govern future action. The delegates, however, will not favour the adoption of any extreme course before they are affoided a further opportunity of referring the whole question to their respective societies.

Sydney, August 7. The owners of the mail steamers have secured in advance sufficient coal to supply the R.M.s. Zealandia on her arrival here.

Sydney, August 7. The Irish Club have decided to raise a fund towards defraying the cost of the defence of Mr Parnell in the inquiry nto the charges of the '-Times'* against him.

Sydney, Augusts. Replying to a deputation from the Australian National ■ Association; Sir Thos. Mcllwiaith, Premier of Queensland, who' is visiting Sydney, said the Association did not advocate immediate separation of the colonies from Great Britain, but that was a step which must come sooner or later. When separation was accomplished, a common kinship and common language would still bjnd them to the Mother Country. What they desired now was that Australia , should Jiave the right to make its own, laws, and repeal those which had become obsolete. The Queensland National Association, he said, now numbers over three thousand members.