CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 470, 10 May 1890, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

London, May 5. The German proposal for a revival of the Telegraph Union is regarded as impossible by the authorities. London, May 5. It was stated during the labour demonstration in Hyde Park. That Australian workmen were agitating for a seven hours’ working day. Paris, May 4. The bombardment of Whyaah caused a panic among the Dahomans. The shelling of the town will be resumed on Monday, unless the prisoners are released in the meantime. Paris, May 5. The Dahomans are reported to be mobilising their troops. Vienna, May 5. It is proposed by Germany that a conference should be held in Paris to consider the feasibility of adopting the Postal Union system to telegraphy. Each State would retain its revenue from telegraphic communications, but 6o centimes a message would be payable to each country to which the message was transmitted. The uniform international tariff might be either twelve and a-half or fifteen centimes a word.

Brisbane, this day. The labour federation have intimated that after a lapse of a week they will fight the non-union wool people from sheep run to the factory. Sydney, this day. As the water recedes the condition of Boutke is found to be deplorable. The relief fund reaches Sir Henry Parkes has received a letter from the Australian and American residents in Johannesberg, who give a fearfully gloomy account of the look of affairs in the Transvaal. Work is scarce and living high. The taxation is iniquitous. The mines themselves are over-rated. Trouble is looming ahead. Melbourne, this day. Mr Duncan Gillies has received a cable message from Lord Knutsford proposing to modify the Western Australian Bill, precluding Chinese who are British subjects. Adelaide, May 5. A constable has reported to the Government regarding the treatment of blacks on a mission station in the Northern territory, and has accused the German missionaries of ill-treating them. He states that he saw women missionaries threaten the blacks with firearms and ride down runaway children with revolvers. Women were illused, and cripples of both sexes were allowed to wander where they pleased. He asserts that natives who manage to etcape from the mission become the worst of outlaws.