LATE CABLES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5414, 2 January 1889, Page 3

LATE CABLES

[PER FRKBB ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.]

(Received January 2, 12.20 p.m.)

T.IIK PAST YEAR.

London, January 1. Arcturu just published shows the nominal capital of tho principal companies established during the your at JCS!),000,0O0. Tho revenue for tho year for Groat Britain was jCOP, 137,000. THEATRE BURNED. A theatre was destroyed by fin , at Kirkcaldy, Fife, but no fatalities nre reported. LETTERS FROM THE POPE. Rome, January 1. The Pope, in an encyclical letter just published, sayn the only euro for the evils prevalent in "society is tho return of the nations into tho fold of tho church. His Holiness ill - 'i, in the course of a letter, utters ii so 1 .hi warning to certain nations, who, ho nays, will have to pay the penalty for their Sinn. MUTINY IN A GAOL. Masadaxay, January 1. Tho prisoners in one of the gaols mutined. Tho disturbance was quelled by tho guard, but not tfefore seven mutineers had been ' killoa. " THE BRII'ISH ENTER HANDOUIS. SuAKiJt, January 1. Sir F. XV. Gronfell hasectered Hundoub. He has published a proclamation announcing the defeat of Osnian Digna. Many tribes have assured tho General of their loyalty to tho British. GENERAL BOULANGER. Paws, January 1. The flection for the Department Seine has been fixed for the 27th instant. General Boulanger is confident that he will bo returned by an enormous majority. DESTITUTION IN FRANCE. It is reported that tho struggling peasants anil xmall landed proprietors of Franco generally ere in a distressed condition, and that some have stated they would gladly exchange their lot with that of first-class convicts at Now Caledonia.