Cablegrams.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1027, 30 March 1894, Page 6

Cablegrams.

* Two young students at Oxford agreed to commit suicide by taking prussic acid. The sudden death of the first frightened the second, who called in the police. A statement has been received in New York that Martin, the New York 'Jack the Ripper,' mutilated the body of a girl 11 years of age and. boiled the remains. Owing to the Ozar'ff personal negotiations, the Austrian Government have agreed to the establishment of a commercial treaty. Twenty-seven conspirators, concerned in a plot to dynamite the King and the Ministers of Oorea, were beheaded. Mr Huddart has engaged Mr R. S. White, designer of the's.s. Campania, as nautical adviser in connection with the construction of a new 10,500 steamer which he purposes to have built. Financial experts declare that Mr Huddart has the brightest prospects of floating his scheme, and that the present timo is opportune, as the Australian shipowners' hesitate to refrigerate steamers involving the sacrifice of a large proportion of cargo space unless Continuous cargoes are guaranteed. A tremendous explosion occurred at Santander (Spain) while a party were removing dynamite from a hulk

wrecked in November last. Twelve persons were killed and 30, injured. The American Chinese treaty proposes that Americans going, to China should be photographed and registered in a similar way to Chinese visiting; America. The new English bank, River Plate, has suspended payment. Count von Capri vi in the Reichstag stated that Emperor William had concluded a. Russian commercial treaty, believing that the coming century would demand a coalition o£ the nations, which they would be unable to stand singly. „ . , . During the sermon in a church in Grenoble an infernal machine was exploded at the entrance. Twenty persons were injured. The Czar's personal action has removed the obstacles in the way of the Austro-Rjiissian - commercial treaty being renewed. VThe riots at Buda Pesth in conneccttbn with Kossuth's death continue, and- numerous windows have been smashed and shops looted. The. police fired on the mob, ond the cavalry charged with their sabres. Forty persons were injured. The Hungarian Government are not unsympathetic at the of Kossuth, but refused the honors demanded by a minority in the district. The Assembly has carried a resolution placing on record the deceased patriotic services. He will be buried in Pesth on April 1. ' A number of riotous students hung a black flag from the Royal box in the Pesth Theatre/ Pauevels, the Anarchist who was killed while exploding a bomb at the entrance to the Church of La Madeleine, has been identified as the author of the several outrages including that in the Rue de Jacques. President Peixoto has revised the decrees enabling the execution of rebels without a trial, and . aho of any foreigners guilty of assisting them. The prisons are full of suspects, and it is expscted that the greater number of them will be shot. Many of the European Governments have communicated with the President, urging clemency. Admiral de Mello has been proclaimed the head of the rebels, and the Government offer Ll o,ooo for his capture. A large quantity of dynamite accidentally exploding at Pittsburg, five persons were killed and many injured. The condition s of the butter and cheese ex Tainui and Nairnshire is good. A family of five were burned to death in Clerkenwell by the upsetting, of a paraffin lamp. The establishment of a naval station by the United States at Pearl Harbour, Honolulu is regarded as virtually equivalent to the declaration of a protectorate over Hawaii. The Times considers the civilised world has every reason to be contented with this step. Cholera has made its appearance in Constantinople. An aeronaut who ascended at Cannes was carried out to sea and drowned in full, view of a thousand spectator?. La Pata, senior judge of Madrid, has has been arrested on a charge of complicity in the forgery of a will. Tt is reported that the Anarchists have poisoned the colleague of Garrquiz, who is imprisoned at Barcelona, to prevent him revealing any secrets. The new Canadian Tariff Bill reduces the duty on mutton. The Italian railway debt is L200,000,000. The annual deficit in interest, charges, and working expenses is L8,000,000. The Lord Mayor will give a banquet to the Agents-general on April 23 (St. George's Day). Lord Ripon has consented to attend. The Times regards Mr Huddart's request for an Imperial subsidy for an Atlantic service as a reasonable one, owing to its advantage foi military purposes, and adds that the prospect of the construction of the Pacific cable should justify the British Government in agreeing to a guarantee for the latter. Great Britain, it says, must remove the obstacles in trad, between the colonies and considers it would be an easy matter to rearrange the Belgian and German treaties. A report presented to the American Congress reveals the fact that grave defects are in the armor plates supplied to the navy. The contractors are I'efur.d--ing the money they received. I Russia has reinforced her troops on the Afghan frontier. ■ The Queen will attend Jhe Duke of Hesse's wedding in Coburg. The Newfoundland sealers expect the season to become a complete failure. Edinburgh roughs stoned Mr Joseph Chamberlain's carriage and smashed its windows. He escaped injury. A school attached to the convent at Rouen was burned down. Six of the inmates perished in the flames. The Anarchists threaten to blow up Cordova Cathedral in revenge for the execution uf Anarchists at Xeres. The Daily Chronicle hopes that when colonial finance improves the colonies will assent to an Imperial penny post. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette declares that the New Australia settlement in Paraguay is a complete fiasco. Liliuokalani, the deposed Queen of Hawaii, is now in England on a lecturing tour. She appears on the platform in her royal robes. Queen Christina of Spain haslimited thtfirmtations to the court functions,

in order to lessen the chance of conspirators gaining admittance. „ " The Ameer of Afghanistan has recalled the Governor Shignan owing to his -intriguing with the Russians to , assist their advance ih the Pamirs. Lord Hopetoun will complete his term of offiice as Governor of Victoria, and may remain until March, next, in order to return to England at a seasonable time of the year. The King of Denmark declared to the. Czar and the Emperor of Austria that, with a view to maintain peace, Europe was ready to reduce its millitary expenditure. The ' Forum ' says that the Irish Tammany Ring entirely control and corruptly administer municipal government in Brooklyn, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and other chief cities of the United States. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Czar eeclars that he will ruthlessly extinguish anarchy and its propagators,. who are the-sole formidable enemy to peace and progress. The Westminster Gazette, referring to the Postal Conference in Wellington considers it*absurd to make England's concession respecting penny postage dependent on Australian finance. French agents are trying to secure plans of the new works being carried ■ on at Gibralter. The British and European Powers are endeavouring to arrange an international conference to deal with Anarchists. The chairman of the Senate Commit- | tee on Foreign Relations denies that the Government intend to improve Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Admiral Harker has been appointed to counteract the British in favor of the Queen of Hawaii. Mr Huddart has secured the cooperation of the Grand Trunk and : Pacific Railway companies ih support j of an Atlantic service. London financiers are convinced that the scheme will be successfully floated. \ Five of the best shipyards have ; offered to build vessels. The Good Templar Conference in London has been opened, and a hearty ; welcome extended to the Australian j delegates. Mr Malings, the president, ■ said that the New South Wales lodges J had been a tower of strength in making ' members of Pari im ent Good Templars, j The priest of Allaire, in France, has ! reported to the Vatican that slaves are are extensely marketed in some villages , of Abang, in Africa, and killed, their joints being selected for food before, hand. . The Emperor of Austria will meet the Emperor of Germ ray at Abazia on Thursday to rearrange, the Triple Alliance expiring in 1897. The Socialists of Brussels demand the establishment of a republic. During a storm off Newfoundland the fishermen were carried seaward on an ice floe. Steam tugs were sent to their rescue and took the men on board, but two had died from the cold.