CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 366, 8 May 1889, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

London, May 1. ' Sib Dillon Bell has formed a committee here in connection with the proposed Dunedin Exhibition, He has also arranged to forward from Melbourne forty of the English loan collection of pictures recently shown at the Centennial Exhibition. I Sin John Walsham, British Minister to China, has failed to procure the assent of China to the Australian Exclusien Bills. The question will now remain undecided, pending a settlement with China. England is agreeable to enforcing the exclusion of the Chinese in the meanwhile in accordance with the provisions of the Bills, but China objects to nogotiato at all unless the Bills are suspended pending theadoption of a new treaty. A number of noblemen and gentry have subsciibed £10,0G0 with the object of settling Ulster Scottish tenants upon boycotted farm 6 ! in Ireland. It is expected that the Government will not proceed with the proposed ratification of the Sugar Bounties Convention this session, several members of the Tory party opposing it. / ]t is rumoured that the [ndian Government will extend the railway to Candahar. A body of Khinds outraged and murdered an American girl in the presence of her parents. The alteration in the deed of settlement of the Bank of Australasia has been confirmed. Mr Parnell, in cross-examination to-day, said that he otten remonstrated with OBrien, but never publicly repudiated his utterances. The Marylebone Cricket Club have passed several important alteiations in the rules, which come into immediate operation. Among the alterations made by the Club, it is now decided that an over shall consist of five balls ; it is also decided that the bowler may change ends as often as he likes, provided he does not bowl successive overs ; on the last day of a match, or at any time during a one-day match, the batting side may declare the innings closed, though it should not be completed. All the leading county clubs, with the exception of Surrey, have agreed to the alterations. Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador at St. Petersbmg, in the course of a despatch addressed to the Marquis of Salisbury, declares that M. Vyshnegradsky, the Russian Minister of Finance, could never have effected the remarkable revolution in the Russian financial position without the assurance of the Czar that the nation intended to preserve peace. Sir Thomas H.FARRAR,in a letter to the Sugar Bounties Convention, says that Victoria should be compelled torepeal the differential duty on beet sugar. In reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Hon. Playfair said that the whole of the colonies had accepted the. Sugar Bounties Convention except New South Wales. A sensation has been caused in aristocratic circles by the separation of the newly married Duke of Newcastle from his wife. More Nihilists have been airested a St. Petersburgh. The fires at Calumet and Plecla are out. Mr W. L. Rees sailed for New Zealand by the Kaikoura. All the Liberal Unionists and twenty Tories oppose the Sugar Bounties Convention. It is asserted at Berlin that in view of Australian interests in Samoa, England on many points will support the American proposals. Paris, May 3. A brilliant fete takes place at Versailles on Sunday, when President Carnofc will unveil a tablet erected in commemoration of the meeting of the National Constituents Assembly of 1775. Mexico, May 2. A Mexican mob made an attempt to release five Jesuit priests who had been committed to gaol at Guanajuato, the capital of the State of the same name, for preaching seditious sermons. The troops were called out to protect the governor of the gaol, and were compelled to fire on the mob. Two hundred of the latter were killed. Njiw York, May 1. President Harrison reviewed a parade of the Industrial Trades Societies to-day. Eighty thousand workmen took part. General Harrison also attended divine service in the church were Washington worshipped on the same date a centuary ago. The proceedings were of an impressive character. New York, May 2. During a display of fireworks at Chicago to-day, a rocket was accidentally discharged amongst a crowd of people. Several hundred people were badly burnt but there were no fatalities. Capetown, May 3. Sir Hercules Robinson in a speech delivered before he 'left the Cape, asserted that Imperialism was diminishing greatly, and that in South Africa the chief factor of future colonisation was Republicanism. He condemned the principle of irresponsible bodies in England meddling with tho colonies. Baron de Worms, replying to a question put by Mr Campbell in the House of Commons, relative to the remarks made by Sir Hercules Robinson, stated that it was undesirable to take useful action until the full text of the speech was received. The colonial press, he said, generally approved of the tone of the speech.