LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2169, 3 June 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Arm-.Ns, May 31. TllK flreek (Jovernnu nt ln\o notified the European I'oweis of Uhmi iiituutinii to dm:irm, and have* nigt-d tlif vvithdrawal of the blockade fioin the Grn'lc |>"i ts.

London, May 31. Punce Albert Victor in Ini book, "The Chum* of the Biceli into,'' inM*t-> on the urgent nocexsitv for the defence of Albany. Heconsulei> that the rt'tidi\i>tp question threatens a French \v:\r, and holds that in case of such an e\nnt, m> matter what party may be in power, Ilnglind cannot let the colonies *-tan<l alone. He suggests that the Falkland Island«« should he exHi.ingrd for Xi»w Caledonia, r.nd denounce* th« cowardly habit of letting the colonial policy drift on the itrenfrth of the understanding with Frdnce. He strongly support* the j>ohcy of Austrnlin re^pcctihtf the Pacific Inlands. Tlie Prc<s ge:ier.illy eulogibe Prince Victor*" book. The Prince of Wales was present at a lecture delivered bv Major .T. C. Colomb on the subject of Imperial defence. The Dnke of Cambridge, who wai present, urged the co-operation of the colonies in order to effect such a defence, and further, h" belie\ed the only prosent obstacle in the vriy of carrying out the sclieme, was that of the nocossarv taxation. The Timen supports Major Colomb's idea of an Australian ar-enal. The executive of the Exhibition consider that Dr. Julius Yon Ha.ist'n proposal to convert the Exhibition into a museum is ill-timed, as they were already moying in the matter.

Jime 1. Austria is incensed at certain ajrgressire actions of Hungary. Count Kdward Taaff*. Minister of the Interior and President of the Austrian Council of Ministers, is likely to resign. Sir Saul Samuel will Hign a contract with the Orient Co. for the conveyance of the parcel post. It is stated that it is inipo"ible for the (rovernment to prevent the sale of frozen meat as home produce. The Australian mail*, dated Melbourne. April 18, per Carthage, were delivered yesterday, \iaßnndi«i. In the House of Commons last night, Mr H. H. Fowler, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated, in reply to a question, that he \vas> not aware Germany had made arrangements to charge 2j,d for postage on letters to Anstrnlia. Mr Fowler added he had reason to believe that the colonies belonging to the Postal Union objected to any reduction in the rale of p i»tage. Spcikinjr at a conference at the Exhibition on the colmual wool supplies Messrs Moncrieff and Paul, wool brokor-s, slid that the. wool from the River Plate Diatrict would prove a competitive bugbear to the colonial article.