NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3512, 16 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, May 12,

Sir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, has submitted fresh tariff proposals to the Agents-General, Mr Gladstone, in presenting the (Jobden Club address to Mr Thomas Potter, admitted that Freetrade was undergoing a period of danger, and tliat its doctrines had lost much ground during the past quarter of a century, owing to a large extent to European militarism, The American and colonial action in excluding the Chinese, was Protection pure and simple. It was the virtues not the vices of Chinese that were dreaded. He believed that Freetrade would triumph shortly in America,

May 13. Mr Cecil Raikes, PostmasterGeneral, states that at present the loss by the outward postal sorvice to Australia is ,£78,000, and that a reduction to a ponny to India and Australia would be an additional loss of £IBO,OOO. •■■■"■■■■■

Qt Brown, of Bedford, lias boen appointed chairman of tho Congregational Union, Mr Gladstone, in his address to the Cobden Club, expressed regret that the i colonies bad not accepted tho lessonof English experience. Having however, excluded goods,' it waß only to bo supposed that tbey would exclude men from their territory who competed with their own artisians, did not consume alcohol, and worked harder for less money. The Sugar Bounties Convention he looked upon as dead,

FOREIGN.

Berlin, May 13.

In the Reichstag, General Capiivl paid he reviewed tho colonial policy with misgivings, but a retreat r,ow was impossible. Bullets and Bibles, he said, must civilise Africa.

Heir Marschall, speaking in the Reichstag, said the Kraperor'a chief cure would be to proceed amicably with England over the question of the African colonies, and persevere with settlement despite petty disputes, Do Caprivi hoped the Government would shortly be able to leave the company to administer the East African territory.

Si John, May 13.

The Newfoundland colonists are furious at the relusal of the English Qovsrument to assent to the Fishery Begulaiion Bill unless the Freuoh are excepted from its-provisions,