LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 62, 13 November 1880, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[Eetjteb's Special to Stab.]

London, November 11.

The ' Board of Trade imports for the past month amount to i-27,4£7, 500, bein# a decrease of £4,875,000, compared with last year. The exports for the same period amounted to being an increase of £1,000,000, compared with last year. Large withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England are being made from North America.

Paris, November 11.

The statement that the Ministry had resigned, in consepuence of their defeat in the Chamber of Deputies over the March decrees, was premature. It is now understood that M. Jules Ferry and his colleagues will defer tendering their resignations to President Grevy until the position has been further considered.

Vienna, November 11.

• A very heavy earthquake' has been experienced in the south-eastern portion of Austria, by which fearful havoc has been caused to a town called Wagram.

The damage caused to the town of Wagram by an earthquake which occurred there yesterday is estimated at fully three million florins (£300,000).

Constantinople, November 11.

The Porte is sending further reinforcements of troops to I>ervisch Pasha, who, together with Eiza Paaba, has now left the neighborhood of Dulcigno. The Sultan has telegraphed to the Great Powers, informing them that the surrender of Dulcigno to Montenegro is expected to be made immediately. News has been received that the chiefs of the Albanian League, except those resident in Duleigno, have now promised Dervish Pasha, in compliance with his request, that the cession should be made at once.

St. Petersburg, November 11.

Owing to the. famine, which it is feared is impending in Russia, prices of food generally, but especially of wheat, are rapidly increasing. Much alarm exists, and the Government threatens to transport some of the leading grain merchants foi' the manner in which they have rai&ed prices.

Athens, November 11.

In view of the expressed intention of the Government to maintain their demand for a rectification of the Greek frontier, additional troops' are being mobilised, and the army throughout is being placed on a war footing.

[SPECIAL TO MELBOttBNE ARGUS."} A strong committee oi noblemen and gentlemen has been formed to arrange for the coming rowing match on the Thames between Hanlon, the Canadian champion, and Trick tt, the Australian sculler.

His Holiness the Pope has warned the Eoman Catholic ' Bishops of Galway and Waterford to avoid any interference with the Irish Land agitation. Mr. Lyall, the special' Commissioner, who has been despatched from Simla by the Indian Government to superintend the settlement of affairs in Candahar, has arrived at that place. He advocates the retention of Candahar by the British, and the construction of a railway to connect Candahar with Indian territory.

Mr. Bradlaugh, M.P. for Northampton, bad arranged to address a meeting at Exeter in opposition to the land. laws. The Mayor of the city, anticipating a riot, warned Mr. Bradlaugh that he would hold, him responsible if any disturbance occurred. Mr. Bradlaugh thereupon declined to speak. The crowd upon this mobbed Mr. Bradlaugh, and tried to capsize the cab in which he drove from the meeting. Mr. Bradlaugh at last escaped to the railway station.

[SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE. Mr. Bradlaugh, the member for Northampton, has written to the papers, drawing public attention to the fact that the Maoris arrested several monthß ago at Parihaka, in th » New Plymouth district, New Zealand, lor resisting the authorities taking possession of the Waimate Plains, have been detained in prison without trial for an unprecedented length of time. He states that the Maoris, in resisting the attempt of. the Government to assume possession of the confiscated land, were

acting within what they believed to be" their legal rights, and he protests against the detention of the Maoris without trial as an illegal and arbitrary act.

There has been an enormous increase of emigration to the United States from the United Kingdom, especially from Ireland, and. the exodus shows no sign of diminution. During the past year ov&rhaft a million of people have left this country for America. ■ The wheat harvest throughout Russia this year has exhibited a serious diminution in the yield, as compared with previous years. The result is that Bussia will have to import largely from America and other countries.

A d sfcruetive fire broke onb in Bermonasey* Soutliwark, Lcm&on. Th& U&cass extenußu to a number oi wool warehouses, which were involved' in the' conflagration, and the contents more or less damaged. The loss of property is immense. The value of the warehouses and their contents consumed has been estimated at £70,000.

A destructive fire has taken place at Manchester. The post office, a fine building, was burnt to the ground, and the extent of damage done -was very large. *A destructive fire has taken place in Dublin. It originated in a large store containing petroleum, and caused a considerable amount of damage before it was extinguished.