CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3423, 15 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. — COPYRIGHT.) NEW YORK, December 13. Dingley informs the Republican members of Legislature that a session to consider the tariff is inevitable, and he personally favors moderation. PRETORIA, December 12. The Volksraad has been prorogued. In his speech President Kruger expressed pacific intentions towards the whole of Europe. ST. PETERSBURG, December 12. Fifteen hundred arrests have been made in Moscow in order to prevent students commemorating the Khodiusky disaster. The Novsti newspaper considers that an entente cordiale with Great Britain is mostly to be desired. It is stated that the RussoChinese treaty merely ensures Russia building and working the Siberian railway and extension to Manchuria. ROME, December 12. His Holiness the Pope* gave an audience to Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, New Zealand. The reports instigated by the Government prove that charity funds have been largely used for political purposes, and that there had been lavish outlay by public officers under Signor Crispi's Cabinet. MADRID, December 12. Maceo's medical advisers confirm the death of their patient, and rejoicing continues. Government admit the loss of 17,000 men in Cuba and Philippine Islands. SHANGHAI, December 12. After the steamer Saghalien left Hong Kong the boiler burst and all the stokers on duty at the time were killed. LONDON, December 12. It is expected that the result of the international conference on the sugar duties sitting at Paris will be to greatly reduce the cost of sugar to the consumer. MONTE VIDEO, December 18. The Mamari left for London today. Her meat is in good condition. ADELAIDE, December 14. The barque Fronz, not Hutz, as at first cabled (which was reported as overdue from Port Pirie to Devonport) has arrived at London. MADRID, December 14. The Cubans assert that Maceo was massaored while conferring with the Marquis Alumada. SYDNEY, Deoember 14. Obituary: Dr Gilchrist, Presbyterian divine, formerly colleague of the late Dr Lang. A man named O. Robertson is reported to be missing. He came from Gippsland with a stranger as a mate. Robertson had £800 in his possession. . Work in the Stockton colliery will be resumed to-day. Special percautions will be taken to preclude a recurrence of disaster. MADRID, December 14. Reports received here state that the United States permitted sixtyfour filibustering parties to organise and land in Cuba, otherwise the rebellion would have ended. The insurgents accuse General Maceo's doctors of treachery, and declare that of the whole of his party there was only one who escaped. NEW YORK, December 14. Hales, cycling representative of the New York Herald, has ridden 1911 miles in 142 hours which beats the previous record of world. WASHINGTON, December 13. McKinley favors intimate and cordial commercial relations with Canada, but refuses to pledge himself to a reciprocal treaty. ZANZIBAR, December 12. The chief Chikusi, head of the Anjoni Zulus, who is creating a disturbance in Central Africa, is said to have thirty thousand warriors at his command.