CABLE NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3782, 2 December 1898, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

The Anglo-French crisis. London, November 30. — Mr Balfour, speaking at Bristol, said that Britain had no controversy with the French nation or the French Government but only with the Colonial party. The Fashoda incident ought to serve as a beacon-warning to foreign statesmen that they were mistaken if they supposed that British patience was unlimited. A Gordon memorial. London, November 30. — Lord Kitchener appeals through the newspapers for £100,000 to establish a Gordon College at Khartoum to perpetuate the memory of the late General Gordon. The Queen has consented to act as a Patron of the Institution and the Prince of Wales as vicepatron. London, December 1. — The Gordon memorial fund has reached £40,000. A valuable discovery. London, December 1. — Lord Lister, speaking at the Royal Society, declared that the Kolle Turner process of injection for the treatment of rinderpest had saved 700,000 cattle at Cape Colony. Meeting of rulersLondon, December 1. -- The Queen in her journey homeward, after a visit to Comez next spring, will meet the Emperor of Germany at Coburg. Emperor of Germany to visit England. Berlin, December 1. — The Emperor will probably visit Britain and Ireland in the summer. Dynamite. Marsailles, November 30. — An attempt was made to destroy the Marsailles Bourse with dynamite but was frustrated. Sensational utterance. Vienna, November 30. —Speaking in the Reichsrath, Count Thun, Premier, said that if Prussia continued to expel Poles and Czechs Austria would retaliate. This has created extraordinary excitement throughout Germany and Austria. The Berlin journals condemn the threat as an unwarrantable menace. Another frontier trouble. Bombay, December 1 . — The Mollah's force is increasing and defeated the forces of, the Nawab of Der. The British column has reached Chakdara. The fanatical Government is spreading on both sides of the Swat River. The peace settlements. Washington, December 1. — The American Government has decided that the Cuban tariff be equal to all and that the same polioy be carried out respecting the Philippines. The storm. New York, November 30. — Latest reports of the storm experienced on the coast of New England show that it was terrific. Two hundred wreoks occurred, including the American steamer Portland which was driven ashore at Cape Cod. Sixty-five passengers and forty-nine of the crew were drowned. !

A Central American projeotNew York, December 1. — Five states, forming a gM&ter republic in Central America, have resolved on each resuming its absolute sovereignty. A careless smoker. Havanna, November 30. — Forty persons were injured, 18 fatally, by an explosion of gunpowder here caused by carelessness in the disposal of a lighted cigar.