CABLE MESSAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5578, 8 January 1879, Page 5

CABLE MESSAGES.

EUROPEAN. bKB lik thbatvSolbded as safe, .me POPE AND TOE GERMAN THE iUIA j3 IS HOPS. MORE ASSASSINATION PLOTS. ADVANCE on CAKDAHAB. r-ccxl\u OF A 38-TON GUN. AND jjUESTIM* £ ISS of UFK . [BBUTEB'S TELTWRAMS.] LONDON, Jaw. 3. pr>">ncuil Comtpoutiemce, the organ at Berlin, regards u iitical horizon as clearer no* than K L, n for a long time past Oon“®a strict execution ol the Berlin T t J , nveption of Ambassador* by . ciotm most friendly assurances on behalf of the several WtTx' * x powers- _ <****■ Ji*. 1. t veixmeat is understood to have b ll i scheme of university educac Catholic Bishops of Irenon lasi . THE WELLINGTON POST.] ST tH* 4 * * LONDON, Dec. SI. --v,. Pore appeals to the German to inculcate the duty of to the laws of the land, and tS* lie Blsho P* «“* clergy to fir the welfare of the secular 'including the temporal soveEurope- . . Another intended assassination of a Surotesm f -. .-reign has been discovered, ~J- u --rder the Prince of Serna htiTUik cotectcd. <j^ re p,r; of the liquidator of the Ciw of Gltscow Bank is of a very unhrxrilie character. Jan. 1. Geccril Hill has for the present sapped* all traS-’. through the Khyber Pass. Peer.the Ameer’s regiments have deserted Li standard. _ Xhree-f: mths of General Biddttlph’s division have taken up a position on the plain of Candahar, and there ia a general advance of the British troops on that atv. Jan. 8. One of tie oS-tcn gnus on board H.M. turret shir Tnnnderer burst, destroy* i-c- the turret, killing seven men and wounding 4<.' .others. AUSTRALIA. SEAMEN 5 STRIFE IN MELBOURNE. SLANDER OF ENGLISH CRICKETERS. LCCK OUT OF MINERS. 'mctil TO TES WSLUSGTON I'OeT.J MELBOURNE, Jan. 1. The teamen belonging to the ships now in port have struck. TEer demand £7 per month for the yovage from Melbourne to London, or £o per month for the round trip. Fully 160 men already are out on strike, and the movement is spreading iap;d!y. Several ships are cow lying idle in port unable to procure hands to work them. An absurd statement has found currency in reference to Emmett and Ulyett, the two Yorkshire professional cricketer*, who were playing in Lord Harris’ English team. It is broadly asserted that they sold the recent match with the Australians, vhieh vraa won by the latter with ten wickets to spare, and that haring arranged with the bookmakers that the English team should lose the match, they took care by their play to bring about this pre-arranged result. This allegation it absolutely untrue, as the match waa paves and *:t entirely on its merits. This “ {retl . T daarf It both tides. The miners ;r. th. espby of the Bull! mpacy— »no ttrnri work on Dec. 24, be- **“* had employed Chinese «*nieaon tears me colliers owned by Use mjanj ano etrigtd in the trade—have intimated the;.- to return to work mw tost tie Sydney anti-Chinese strike ha* settled. Tnt Company, however, have ed to i&ck ou »U those of the miners T “° " 4 “P d “ ’-he Union, and joined the rtoent strike. .Bit nu'B TXLEGJUMS.J MELBOURNE. Jan. 7. -; TLurtd&y, four men answering to the of the Kelly s, well mounted, • the Murrumbldgee going towards a , had two packhorwa with them, ‘-eputation from the Harbour Trust on the Minister of Lands with a for the supply 0 f half a million tons *-t or tie reclamation of swamp* around •f a cost of two ahillings per top. [ Longmore said he would consult his teu«gue*. SYDNEY, Jan. 7.. miners and other emplogit of the Colliery have been dismissed, and all * Cf * a>t a standstill.