SECOND EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2325, 13 January 1893, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

GABLE FJBffS. ByEleotric Telegraph.— Copyright. "^ (united press association.) ; ' LONDON, January 12. * The Times says that Colonel J. Weit Bidgeway, speoial British- Envoy /to Morocco, will be attended on his arrival •* Tangier? with a nayal.displty of sufficient magnitude" to. impress upon the Moon that ftrtat Britain intends to have her demands satisfied. . . ;;-''• -<* Dofferin, British Ambassador in' Paris, has notified Si. Eibot, Premier, that Bidgeway'a mission to Morocco Will not prejudice the rightrof European powan^ The Standard 'says the New Zetland Government is preparing the conversion of a loan which will include defaulting harbor boards. Rumors of the iMEUe^of fresh loans by some of the Australian oblomes 'v causing depression in Aoi traUitt stocks. . •*<' Mr. John Motley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is removing ■ a large ntunber of governors of lunatio asylums and r»pl«» ingithem by Roman Catholics..; ■ . '' Obituary— Sir, William Wiseman. .,}. ... WASHINGTON, .January 12*^ The Bill which was introduced to pro. bibit immigrants from entering the tfnifcil States for a period of one year has bten; abandoned. •'-■ " ' -'■ PABIS, ; January W' 1111 11' 1 M. Eiffel admitß to hare -received 33,000,000 francs ior contracts and of tnit amount he only spent 5,06p,090k0tt-th« works, keeping the balance for himself, ii. is reported that Freycinet hjt^«phfessed'tti receiving 2,000,000 \- frtooi ' • from tie Panama C&nal Company for Motet >pu»poßes. . '■'->'<-:'. .. -r Panama Canal revelations are wsatona' ing the closely oordul relation's' which/ have lately existed between-Fnmce bot Bussia. • ' -'■ BERLIN, Jamury 12. Yon Caprivi, in the Reichstag, urg«d expediency of passing the Army Bill, alleging it ,was possible. I^MncSnughi'tiker advantage of any computation with Bdinajr, relying on Germany's, eastern frontier; being too long to defend' yiiifi the PWffil army.; In such a ease the only ehawir'fl safety lay in assuming the ofleniivtj anio > to dp that, the army must be materially inoreased. SYDNEY, January 12. f The Federation resolutions have bee^ passed by the Legislative' Assembly, by 5# An artist named Van Easpelen. who* was liviog separate from his wife, shot h\§ landlady, Mrs. Wilson,,, dead with: » revolver beoause she had shown iom»; ilttle kindness to his wife. The murderer afterwards committed snioide by shooting himself. MELBOURNE, January 12. Three thousand tons batter, valued at £340,000, have already been exported from the colony, and it is probable another 10,000 tons will be sent Home before the season closes. . v ADELAIDE, January 12. Lady Kintbre and bar daughters have left for New Zealand. ' ' MELBOURNE, January 13. . The Ballarat Courier recently published an article accusing several, members .of Parliament of immorality, and alleging that the mace stolen from the Obambtr - was now lying. in a house of ill«repnte r Clarke, the proprietor, was called to the bar of the House, and, after tendering an' apology, was admonished by the Spsaker* Sir J. Servioe has declined to take the leadership. BRISBANE, January l&V ' The Government Savings Bank hdtf taken the balance of the Treasury bills* amounting to £222,000. Several more deaths from thirst arc reported out west. An Indian castaway was found on 'ft raft near Cairns; He alleges be Was 1 robbed and thrown overboard from s pearling vessel bound to Sydney from* Thursday Island. He managed to reaob Franklyn Island, where he stayed ei?btte£ days, and then constructed a raft, ujwfl which he had been three days at sea when found. SYDNEY, January'lißi. The prohibition on the importation of New Zealand sheep has been removed.