LATE CABLE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2087, 15 September 1896, Page 2

LATE CABLE.

The Prince of Wales* Persimmon won the f?t. Leger.—The Sporting Life declares that the Australian Cricketers will divide the sum of £10,000 net.— Dr Nansen's.Arctic vessel, the Pram, has arrived at Christiana. The explorer and his crew were accorded a national welcome, and some twelve thousand citizens formed a guard of honour.— Under a pretext of removing dangerous strangers, the wholesale doportiDg of Armenians has been resumed—The President of the Orange Free State,addressing the Customs Conference, expressed a hope that the various States would abolish the present political onrest, and work harmoniously in creating a United South Africa.— Li Hung Chang thinks the Canadian-Pacific Railway one of the greatest works in the world, and one wfcich England would find invaluable in the event of war.— The Sti James's Gazette considers that the Australian cricket team is the strongest' which has visited England since 1884, but that it is not equal to the nighest standard of EnglishiCricket, —The reported of,the Khalifa is : evidently untrue, as it is now stated that he is greatly alarmed at the recent actions of Osman Digna in connection with the opposition to the expedition of the Egyptian forces.—Maxwell's Brigade is advancing opon Dongola, and ' another Brigade is ready to follow.— The men comprising the expeditionory force advancing on Dongola are all between the ages of twenty-six and thirty«two and have seen six years' service.—Major Watts ordered Makoni to be shot, fearing that he would escape. Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor, of Cape Colony, has directed that an enquiry shall be held into the circumstances connected with the affair. Pending the enquiry into the death of the Matal)ele* chief Makoni, Major Watts had been suspended.—-Germany" and Austria are much disconcerted at the frigid end laconic replies in French by the Czar to the effusive speeches delivered by the Emperor of Germany (it the banquet given in honour of the Czar-'s visit to Berlin.—The Eclair newspaper asserts that, acting on the advice of her physician, the Czarina will not accom« pany the Czar on his visit to Paris. General Weyler, who has command of '

the Spanish operations in Cuhn, appears powerless to supprpss the rebels,-who are steadily improving their tioaition. They have abundance of nrrns and ammunition, which it is, believed they receive from Americ*.~The. Phillinine Island troopß defeated the insurgents, atid killed fifty eitrht or . them. Marshal Blanco, the Spa'iiieh GovernorGeneral there, ordered the execution; of! aever.i 1 wealth ysa t -porters of the agitatiojn and exiled 350 A hurricaße which struck Paris in a few minutes unroofed the PaUce of Justice., a number of thnatree and other structures. Many buildings were blown bodily into the Hoirte. ■■■ Omnibuses were upset in all directions and fifty people Were killed or iijtired,— China ifi üboufc to place on the rnnrket a six million loan, with a minimum of 99 —Mr Laurier, the Premier of Ottawa, announced, he would next session introduce an Alien Labour Bill Jto retaliate upon the United States unless the hostility to Canadian workmen shown by that country ie withdrewn.