CABLE NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3069, 17 January 1894, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ROME AND F#Efßfi. *£ Strengthening the uavy. LosDcm, J|ana^3\ 15.— The Daily N«wksay« thit Cfotefhinent has decided to build eight new battleships in addition to the annual shipbuilding programme and also to largely increase the number of cruiaere. ; v The Admiralty are arming the new ships with fifty ton guns instead -of the sixty-seven lon patterns. A much mnrrlecl man. Lokbok, January 10.--The son of a well-known Irish squire has been arrested i h Paris on* charge of bigam/. He is wid to have six wives. The arrest; has caused a great sensation. Euibezzleuieut. London, Janiiaay 16.-^A clerk in the office of Messrs Oook and Sons, tourist agents, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling £9,000, moneys bfrthe.firm. f Anarch Ist riots . i ,Eqme,; January 16;^Trc>ops Have been despatched to Leghorn and other cities to suppress the anarchiste. The disorder is spreading at a great rate' and many arrests nave Deen made. : ' ; ] . Tho Premier is demanding the power of Dictator for six months in Sicily to enable him to quell the revolt. ] Serious rioting is taking place at Carrara. |i : \\\ /'oy- •- Arresti. '-"'' l ■. Vienna, January ifc^Sevehty leaders of the Czech Secret Society are bei ng^ tried; at JPragive on a charge of fomenting riots and insulting the Emperor. Matabeles. Capetown, January 16. —^News has been received that the Bechuana police, supposed to have been slaughtered by Matabeles, are safe. The party, dispatched from Tati to recapture the Maxim guns left by Major Forbes force when compelled to retire before the Matabeles, has returned after a fruitless journey, They report that the bush is swarming witn natives. , IVlhillstg arrested. St Petersbubg, January 16,— A large number of Nihilists have been arrested in this city, their apprehension being the outcome of papers found in the houses of anarchists in Paris, showing the existence of a plot to take the life of the Czar at the Kussian New Yeats reception which happened to be postponed. Hallway accident. New York, January 16/h-Two express trains collided at Hackensack, Jersey City, owing to the points failing to act. The carriages were telescoped. Twenty passengers were killed and many injured. A war ol religions. Zanzibab, January 15.— Severe fighting has taken place between the Mussulmans and Protestants in Uganda, the latter being victorious, the territory of the Mussulmans has been aligned to the Protestants and Catholics. The Protestants drove the Moslems on to the banks of a deep river and killed thirty of their braves and leaders and made prisoners of 1,500 women and children. '.