Cablegrams.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 13 October 1893, Page 6

Cablegrams.

Ifc is proposed to hypnotise De Jough, the Dutchman accused of murdering women, including his wife. Colonel Wissman, the German leader, defeated 5000 Arabs, near Lake Tanganyika, with great slaughter, and liberated 100 slaves. Sir H. M. Durandj envoy to Afghanistan, had a splendid military reception at Cabul, where he was installed in the • new palace. The Ameer offered the representatives' of the Indian G-pvernment many gracious and lavish attentions. A cyclone swept over New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The damage is estimated at one and a-half million dollars. Two hundred lives were lost. At the Church Congress Sir W. H. Houldsworth, M.P., said the losses by the coal strike in the Midland counties amounted to L 10,000,000. The wool sales continue brisk, with strong competition. The Americans are sending coal to England from Philadelphia. The Yorkshire Miners' Society have spent the whole of their accumulated fund of L 160,000. The Ulster Local Parliament meets on October 24. A plot has been discovered at Prague to murder the State Ministers. Three hundred Czechs have been arrested. A tidal wave, followed by a cyclone, swept over the Gulf of Mexico on the sth, and 2000 people were drowned. There have been some scenes at the Church Congress. Father Ignatius accused the Bishop of Worcester, president, of falsehood, at which there was a great uproar. At the Church Congress Father Ignatius desired to speak. Considerable uproar ensued, and the president refused to permit him to address the meeting, giving as his reason that he feared a repetition of the fight in the House of Comrrions. The Bishop of Adelaide regretted the president's decision, saying the * colonies yearned for uuity in church work. The miners ahd mine owners have both accepted the mediation of the mayors of six towns in the Midlands. The wool sales have closed ; 185,000 bales were sold and 35,000 held over. Prices as compared with the July sales were : Merino greasy, good average quality from par to per lb dearer, superior, and inferior lower ; crossbreds, good greasy £d and scoured from par to i^d dearer. Li addition to a dividend of 3 per cent, and providing for two years' depreciation, the New Zealand Shipping Coriipany carry forward to next year's account a sum of L3OOO. ■A man named Henry Holden has been arrested in London on a charge of forgery. He is believed to be identical withthe Holden wanted for heavy forgeries in Sydney. ; : Twenty-five soldiers are being arrested on a charge of atterripting to destroy, by fire the barracks in Smolensk and Moscow. ; Prince Bismarck has left ELissingen for his home at Friedrichsruhe., The Herat regiment, before the, arrival of Sir H. Durand, British Envoy, shot the Afghan assistant commander-in-chief for abusing a Sepoy. Eleven of the mutineers were directly blown from guns; The rest have sworn on the Koran to behave well during Sir H. Durand's visit. ; ;The Airlie, arrived Vat Sydney from Chinfc, brings news of the total wreck, during a typhoon, of the Sydney-owned barque Florence Trent. The captain, his wife, and four children,. and 14 of the crew : were drowned. „- Only three of these,; on board survived. The: vessel was bound from Singapore. to Shanghai with a cargo of timber. News has been received that the' Matabeles - attacked ' the patrol -in B^chuarialand, but dispersed when the latter fired Ori them; King Loben7 guela is directing the Matabele attack. ' TJie Impfenal piplice haveY occupied 5 Zjrita, qii 1 the bdrd^r, of the 'KhaLnia's cduntry ' and MatabelelandY :! SirvHenry \ Lbcli, Governor; of *Cape Colony, bOnii sijieifs the Matabeles are trying to, force 69 a war.. : J r TJ^^tire strength of tlie Chartered tympany's iorges -ifort;

Victoria (some 800. men) is advancing on the. Matabele frontier, . r .- - .- . ■* . \ Tho Ameer. 6f Afghanistan, declares that the . British mission will ' convince i,the world of the friendship of Afghanistan to Eriglahd. News has r been received from, Morocco that YM oors fired on a Spsinish gunboat off Cape Tresfores. : : The gunboat replied, killing riiariy. 1 V .'- The Government of are ap pointing a Viceroy for the purpose of solidifying, her possessions . in -Central Asia. ... • ..., t Fourteen thousand Moors have , pro- , claimed; a holy war, and: threaten. Melilla. The Spanish Government are , sending reinforcements amounting to 20, 000. troops. ; They, have also seized a , British schooner which was supplying the Moors with arms. It is reported that Lord -Chancellor. Herschell has accepted the Viceroyship of lndist. The market is inclined to look with disfavor on Victorian Treasury bills., M. Blondin, who was iibprisoned in connection with the Panama Canal frauds, has been released. The Parisian press state that Italy is . mobilising" her fleet and stengthening her frontier forts in readiness fpr war: with France. y<. . 7 The Times reports large, sales of Italian rentes, the proceeds of which are •■. being invested in colonial bonds. . The body of Miss Schmitz, one of . the victims of the man De Jough, now in custody on a charge of murder, was found floating in the river Amstel. , Marshal M'Mahon and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps are reported to be dying. :. The. mayors of a number of towns in the Midlands, whose mediation in the coal miners' dispute was accepted,advise that the miners should resume ; work :at the old rate of wages, sub- : mitting to a reduction of 10 per cent, y early iv December. . The relief committees at Sheffield . distributed bread amongst the distressed people. The miners' wives fought for , admittance to the schoolhouses which were used for the purpose, and several, fainted. * ;_,