CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 17. Lord Randolph Churchill has published his original protest against the holding of a Commission of Inquiry into the charges made by the “ Times ” against Mr Parnell. He says the promoters of the Commission were the real traitors, and not the Unionists.

Lord Randolph Churchill, in the course of his speech on the Parnell Commission, strongly condemned the Tories of Birmingham.

The Aorfa colliery has been flooded for the purpose of extinguishing the fire caused by the recent explosion.. Forty-three bodies have been recovered.

A convention of the Clan-na-Gael has been summoned.

The English delegates at the Berlin Labour Conference will abstain from discussing the eight hours’ question. The owners of collieries in the|Bristol district, and in parts of Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire,and Yorkshire have conceded the demands of the men, but this only affects about 30,000 of those on strike. From 100,000 to 150,000 colliers have struck tor increased rate of pay.

Thirty Yorkshire colliery owners have conceded the demands of the men.

The price of coal in the Bolton district has risen seven shillings per ton. Several factories are consequently stopping work in Yorkshire. The English wheat crop for 1889 is estimated at sixty-nine million quarters. Arrived : Wave Queen, barque, from Bluff; sailed December 19th. The Duke of Connaught, speaking at a farewell banquet given in his honour, declared that the defences of Bombay are quite useless. There is a suspicion that Mr Howard Elphinstone, a passenger by the Tongariro, lost overboard off Tenerifife, committed suicide. London, March 18. Lord Salisbury has declined to propose a vote for relief of the native s reported to be starving in the Souda n . Paris, March 17. M. Ribot will have the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in the new Ministry. The Due d’Orleans deprecates the presentation of a petition for his pardon.

Pasteur complains of perfidy on the part of the Government of New South Wales in withholding the reward promised for a system of rabbit extermination, and says that he was treated in this way merely because he was a foreigner. Lisbon, March 17. Buchanan, the British Consul, has rehoisted the British flag in the Shire district, East Africa.

Berlin, March 17. Prince Bismarck has had an interview with Dr. Windhorst with a view to negotiating the union of the Cartel and Clerical parties, and thereby securing a majority in the Reichstag.

Munich, March 17. The Bavarian Government have declined to recognise “ Old ’’ Catholics as members of the Church.

Bucharest, March 17. Russia is massing troops on the Roumanian frontier. Rio Janeiro, March 17. The ship Winifred, which left Weliington for London on January 14th, has put into Bahia, a maritime port of Brazil, with her cargo on fire.

Sydney, March 18. The report presented by the Intercolonial Postal Conference, which is of a voluminous and technical cha-r acter, recommends: The adoption of an intercolonial post card rate of two pence, and a parcel post rate of eightpence for the first pound, and sixpence for every additional pound ; increase of the limit of the amount of money orders from to ; compulsory registration of letters containing money and valuables ; and that the telegraphic branch be recommended to charge for names and addresses on telegrams.

Brisbane, March 18. At a public meeting held last night to consider the best means of affording relief to sufferers by the floods, it was decided to raise a fund for this purpose, and the sum of was subscribed in the room. Melbourne, March 18. Serious bush fires are reported at Camperdown and Flinders. There has been great destruction of grass and fencing in both districts. e by In consequence of complaints mad imVictorian printers of the injustice to posed upon them by their having lie compete with New South Wales, whed newspapers from thence are deliverst* free throughout the colonies, the Po - master of Victoria has invited the Po master of New South Wales to a conference on the subject of newspaper postage.