NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3080, 14 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

. - Bkloiiade, December 12. . The abdication of : King Milan of Bervia is co uaidered inevitable, unless Austria intervenes. . Pakis, December 12. ■'l'lifl French extra war budget has been voted by , the Chamber of Deputies, • \ ' : ■ , . The s French- additional war vote agreed, to by the Ohauiberof Deputies amounts to 642,000,000 francs. London December 11., Duriug the proceedings before the ParneH Commission to-day, Sir O. Russell, counsel , for Mr ParneH, Bug-: gested that Mr Gladstone's Government had countenanced secret societies by way of a counterpoise to the Land League. Information has been received that Osmau Digna has been reinforced, and that the Arabs are harassing the British position at Suakim. ; Further British reinforcements for Suakim have been ordered- to leave the stations at Malta, Cyprus, and Alexandria. ' ■

December 12.

The Russian.'-loan.; has failed in Berlin and London, where, in accordance with the arrangements of the syndicate who undertookjo float it, portions.were put on the market. - At a meeting of the Colonial Institute yesterday, the Hon W. Gisborne speaking .on the subject of Colonisation, said that the colonising and foreign police of Great Britain was so interwoven' with her colonial interests that it was; impossible she could lose sight of ■ the latteri Ha instanced the colonising of New Zealand and South Australia as examples of the success .' which has attended Imperial and Colonial-aided omigration.

Julius Yogel pointed to recent ■Bwssliowing tliatthe colonial and exthat" aud aggresonly be a practical; system -if maintained by force. In the event of such federation, lie thought. it would be necessary to establish an Imperial Council for the discussion of questions in which the colonies were concerned. It was out of question to admit the possibility ot England allowing any single colony to secede from the Imperial j connection. On the subject of immigration Sir Julius spoke, at length in condemnation of the State-aided system, Sir William Holdswortb, M.P, for Manchester, said a oommittee' of members of Parliament had recommended the adoption'of the commercial system, . Emigrants wore to receive loans 'at the rate of-8 per cent guaranteed by the Imperial Government for 80 years, and the. colonies to donate the land, This recommendation had beeii unfavorably-received by Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and .Cape Colony, but the colonies of Western Australia aud Natal had fallen in with the auggea-i tion. No. regies had yet beon-re-ceived- on/the'-tiltrjesi; Domiwoivof Canada or Sir' William mentioned- th'at fl sohemo proposed had the, support w q, number of members of the House of Commons, 130' of whom were pledged to its adoption. .