LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1685, 31 March 1886, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

♦ BY ELKCTIUC TBI.BORAP:!— COPYRIGHT. London, 29. The Indian and Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington will ho formal!)' opened on' the 4th of May by Her Majpsty the Queen. Ni.w York, 29. The difficulty between the railway j employees and the companies having been referred to arbitration, the strike has now terminated. Received March 80th, 050 a.m. Brussels, 29. Rioting in Charleroi continues to spread, and the town itself is virtually in a 'state of siege, the strikers hold* ing possession, and forcibly stopping all industries in the place. In consequence of the threatening state of affairs King Leopold has called out the army reserve. Received March 30th, 2.50 p.m. London, 29. In the House of Commons to»day Gladstone announced that the budget will be brought down on the 12th of April, and a statement of the intention of the Government in* regard to the land purchase scheme would be made on the 15th. The Conference of Agents-General i on the New Hebrides question has not ! been productive of any decisive result. | Sir Saul Samnrl and Sir Dilliou Bell, '■ repreHenting New South Wales and i New Zealand respectively, supported the French proposals, while Mr Murray i Smith, on the part of Victoria, advoi catfd a compromise. The inland j which it is proposed to be annexed to i Great Britain, as a set-off to the French occupation of the Hebrides is not Raitea, but Rapa, or Oparo, an island directly on the track between Panama and Australia. Received March 80th, 12.45 p.m. Sydney, 30. A circular has l>een issued to the Governments of the various Australasian Colonies by the Premier, Sir Patrick Jennings, stating that the Government of New South Wales is not disposed to take any action in opposition to the negotiations now going on with regard to the New Hebrides question, provided that France gives the necessary guarantee not to deport recedivisfces to the Pacific Islands. A warrant was issued to-day at the instance of private creditors for the apprehension of Mr Holt.