LATE CABLE NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 1032, 29 January 1889, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Cairo, January 21. News has been received here that the Mahdi's rival, Elsenouissi, has captured the capital of Darfour, and is marching on Khartoum. Paris, January 22. In the course of the debate on the Army Bill in the Chamber of Deputies, M. De Freycinet, Minister of War, stated that he had secured 3,000,000 men for active service should occasion require it. ' London, January 22. The well-known shipping firm of Huddart, Parker, and Co. has been converted into a company, with a capital of £1,000,000. The death is announced of Dr J. Hughes, Bishop of St. Asaph. Lord Salisbury has warned Prince Bismarck that he cannot allow the Sultan of Zanzibar to be set aside in any measures, Germany may adopt to rehabilitate its East African Company. There is a strong feeling in England and on the.Contiuent against Prince Bismarck's vindictive treatment of Professor Geffehen. The latter is now undergoing examination into his sanity at the instance of the German Government.:

It is reported that subject to the consent of the.Fellows of the Colonial.lnstitute it will be amalgamated with the Imperial Institute., the former partyretaining : its individuality. The name of; the joint body will be the Imperial Royal and Colonial Institute. , Leave: has;jbeeii granted to appeal to the •Privy Council in the case of Ah Toy, who wasawarded damages by the Victorian Court of Appeal ia; September;; for not being allowedjtb : land in the colony. ■ : ■ ■ , Tenders were open to-day for the Victoria n loan"of £3,QC)O,OOb at3J.per cent. six and a-half millions were subscribed. The largest tender was for £BOO,OOO. The highest price offered, was) £lO4 2s 6d, and the lowest £IOO. Tenders at £lO3 2s receive 20 per centi The official average is £lO3 6s. The loan is already -luor-.d at a premium of §. Ijord; Derby, presiding at a meeting of the Self-help Emigration Society at Liverpool, said he was sure,the colonies;would pass legislation to check .my scheme for despatching annually 100,000.emigrants./They would be certain to raise..an/outcry against paupers and'. criminals.: Only the best men ought to' be sent, and. hot too, many of them. ;'.'-''' The?" Freemasons gave a banquets to-Lord Onslow before, his,departure, for New Zealand., ,It is reported that :. and America have! agreed on a course of action to be. taken in. Samoa. . Paris, J .maty 22. ■ M. a representative .of the Depart-. mejit of Firiisterre, complained in the. Chamber) of Depu+i's that Chili had been allowed to annex Easier lskud, and Great Britain that of

Raratonga, Remitara, and Rurutur. Admiral Kranz, Minister of Marine, replied that Easter Island' was valueless as a naval station, and Raratonga had never belonged to France. He must, however, ask Great Britain to surrender the other islands, on the ground that they are dependencies of Tahiti. The national honor was in uo way iuvolved, and there was no reason to talk of war. Mr Freppel insisted that the Government wete guilty of neglect and incapacity in allowing British extension in Oceania. Suakin, January 22. The party of Cossacks have landed at Tajurah Bay. New York, January 22. The American gunboat Vandela has been despatched from San Francisco to Samoa. London, January 22. Mr D. Sheehy, M.P. for Galway South, has been arrested at Glasgow on a charge of inciting. It is reported that " Jack the Ripper" is now in Oorunna, from which place menacing letters have been received. The statement is creating a panic in that city. Prince Ferdinand having quarrelled with the Bulgarian clergy, a report has found currency to the effect that he intends to abdicate, and it is already rumored that Prince Alexander of Battenburg will be elected to the throne, notwithstanding the hostility of Russia. The Canadian Government are prohibiting the introduction of all immigrants excepting those from Great Britain. O'Connor has made a match with Gaudaur for 2,000d01. The race will take place in March. The Marquis of Ripou presided at a banquet given by the National Liberal Club to Dabadhai Naoroji, and in proposing a toast of the guest said that Lord Salisbury's dictum, that because a man was not born in England he was unfit to hold a seat in the House of Commons, was repudiated everywhere. For himself, he said, he hoped that Australia, India, aud Canada would yet be represented in the British House of Commons. Dabadhai Naoroji, in replying, said his fellow couutrymen in ludia were determined to obtain a measure of self-rule, aud that the establishment of an Indian Congress three years ago marked an epoch in their national history. Some excitement has been caused in New York by the refusal of the authorities to allow 100 Alsatians engaged by American employers to land there. After some negotiations, however, the matter was subsequently satisfactorily arranged, and the men allowed to come ashore. January 23. The date for closing the wool sales has been extended from 29th January to 21st February. Two hundred and fifty-five thousand bales are available. An unprecedented quantity has gone direct to the weaving districts. This circumstance is expected to affect the prospects of faulty and inferior merinos. Mr Whitehead, Lord Mayor of London, has opened a famine subscription list for the relief of the distress caused by the recent floods in China, which is said to exceed the misery caused by the great floods of 1878. The Standard publishes a statement to the effect that Prince Bismarck, replying to Lord Salisbury's note, states that he has no intention of setting aside the Sultan of Zanzibar. The Maori football team played a match against the Spen Valley United Club at Cleekheaton to-day, and after a tough game won by two goals and two tries to two goals and one try. The first emigrants sent out under the auspices of Mr W. L. Rees' Company sail for Gisborne in the Aorangi. It is announced that Montenegro is taking steps to promote the federation of Greece, Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro. January 24. It is reported that the inhabitants of Comoro Islands, a group lying between Madagascar and the African mainland, are seeking British protection to avoid French agression. During the trial of W. O'Brien at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, on a charge of using inflammatory language at Ballyneale in September last, the prisoner escaped from the Court, the crowd covering his flight. A riot ensued, and the fight between the police and the populace lasted some hours. The former repeatedly charged the mob, using their batons first, and afterwards, when they found their efforts repulsed, having recourse to their bayonets. Twenty rioters received stabs of aserious nature, and scores of others were more or less wounded. A dozen policemen were injured by stones._ A somewhat similar scene took place at Clonakilty, County Cork, during the trial of a priest. Thirteen policemen were wounded by stones and bottles. In three instances the injuries are dangerous, and in another fatal. Thirty of the populace were injured. INTERCOLONIAL. Sydney, January 22. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald predicts that the European situation will reach a climax in April or May. An order for gunboats by the little State of Montenegro is the most ominous incident, showing that it intends to play a decided part in the affairs of 1889, and bodes no good.