Cablegrams.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIV, Issue 1223, 10 December 1897, Page 6

Cablegrams.

— _♦ News from the Soudan states that tho Khalifa is massacring Christian prisoners in Omdurman and Khartoum. Replying to a deputation, Sir Matthew Ridley said that the Government declined to introduce an early closing bill. A convention has been signed on behalf of the British and French Governments providing for the establishment of a parcels post between Fran 20 and India, also between Franco and Australia. During the recent gales on the coast a Margate lifeboat was wrecked and ten of her crew drowned. The committee appointed by the Greek Chamber to investigate the management of the late war have recommended tho dismissal of 100 officers for neglect of duty. The Budget Speech delivered in the French Chamber of Deputies anticipates a surplus of seven million lire. An explosion occurred in the bunkers of the North Ger.oan Lloyd's steamer Darmstadt at Btemerharen, at the River Weser, Eleven of the crew were injured, and slight damage was done to the vessel. Serious symptoms of a Carlist movement have bpcome apparent in Spain. Racial feeling has been embittered over the recent scenes in the Austrian Reichstag, and runs high throughout Austria. Serious rioting occurred at Prague and twelve battalions of Austrian infantry and a squadron of hussars were despatched to Prague to cope with the rioters. Business there was paralysed. The Czechs wrecked and plundered the houses of the Germans ; the university and schools' farni ture was taken from the buildings and burnt in bonfires in the atreeti, and the rioters attempted to storm a cartridge factory, but it was successfully defended by the troops, who killed some of the rioters. The Synagogue and the Jewish warehouses were plundered, and valuable archives stored in the Krusky Palace were burued. Order was restored at midnight but was renewed tho following day, and seven battalions of infantry were called out and fired upon the mob, 200 of whom fell. One hundred and fifty received wounds, mostly of a serious nature and a number were killed. Ninety arrests werft made. A force of 3000 rioters at Pilsen, 52 miles from Prague, wrecked the German gymnasium and attacked the town hall, clamouring for the release of prisoners. The police were compelled to fire upon them, and sneceeded in clearing the streets. Demonstrations against the Czechs have been made at Saatz and Innsbruck. A French Anarchist named Broxette has has been murdered at Longacre, London. He wa? suspected of being a spy. It is reported from Berlin that, if Greab Britain required it, Germany was willing to cede her protectorate rights in New Guinea. A reply was given in the negative. A disastrous colliery explosion took place at Kaiserlautern, Rhenish Prussia. Thirty seven miners were killed and many injured. Priests who are assisting in the Carlist movement in Spxin refuse to admit the Pope's authority in politics. Senor Sagasta declares that the movement requires close attention. After one attack, rpndered unsuccessful by the almost inacessable nature of the heights where the tribe - men had entrenched themselves, the British troops in a second attempt defeated Chamkanufs's tribesmen m the Indian frontier, and compelled them to fli»e from their strong position. A telegraph corps h*.i sailed for the west coast of Africa, for the purpose of erecting & telegraph line 350 miles long from Ligos to the hinterland. A dflgtriiotii'a storm at Naples wrecked 25 merchant vessels. The croaly of pence between Turkey nnd Greece has been signed, and will b< ratified in 15 days. Tho editor of the Egyptian native journal Saika ban been sentenced to 20 month)*' imprisonment for expressing llio hopn that the British Hag would b« hoisted over Kgyf.t. A fir« destroyed a publisher's premises at Qhritittanlu, doing damage

to the extent of 400,000 kroner (over L 22.000). Lieutenant Peary, who in 1894 conducted an expedition for the purpose of examining the land stretching northward from the coast of Greenland, has arranged to start another expedition in July next. He expects to be absent five years.