EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 21 January 1882, Page 5

EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

i [PKE S.S. ALIIAMBBA, AT TUB BLUFF.] ; Losi on, January 12. In official circles no results are anticipated from the Congress of Great Powers which Bisrrarck has summoned to consider the position of the Pope, and the guarantee of his independence. It is considered as likelv that the Congress will not take place. A sculling match has been arranged to take place on the Thames on the 20th June, between Hanlan and Ross, the former haviDg already left New York for the purpose of training on the Thames. Trickett states that he is following Hanlan to England. The Agent-General of New South Wales has written to the Times answering the criticism which appeared in that journal on the iinancial position of New South Wales. He contends that the surplus revenue of the colony is em ployed in carrying out reproductive public works, and points out that the railways throughout the colony return a net profit of over 4 per cent. A dreadful massacre by the American Indians has just taken place in Arizona. Twenty persons were murdered. The Rev. Mr. Sanger, a dissolute clergyman, who was Vicar of Carlton, Northallerton, North Riding of Yorkshire, lias been committed for trial on a charge of having set fire to and burnt his church. A barmaid of Spiers and Pond's Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, recently committed suicide. At the inquest it transpired that Bhe had been seduced by Lieutenant Ponsonby, a naval officer, and that she committed suicide in consequence. The. jury censured Lieutenant Ponsonby, who has since been dismissed from the navy. The Times this morning publishes a letter from a correspondent, which suggested that the colonies should adopt some method of registering their stock, instead of, as at present, issuing and selling open debentures. If this suggestion were carried out, the correspondent believes that agents and others would rapidly avail themselv«3 of what would in reality be a new fixed mode of investment. Louise Michel, the amnestied Communist, has been sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment by the Court of Correction of the police of Paris, for using seditious and revolutionary language at a meeting of admirers. One of the persons implicated in the theft of the body of the late Earl Crawford, from the family mausoleum, at Duneches, Aberdeenshire, has offered to disclose the place where it is secreted. The largest steel steamer yet built has been launched at Belfast. Sue has been named the Garfield, and is intended for the Australian trade.

January 10. The Rev. George Sanger has been discharged. The Royal Mail steamer Gity of Sydney, which has arrived at San Francisco with the Australian and New Zealand mails, reports that tribal hostilities are expected to break out at "Apia, one of the islands in the South Pacific. The screw steamer Lion, bound from Greenock to Newfoundland, has been wrecked off the latter place. Forty-three of the crew and passengers were lost. Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape, has been appointed Governor of the British Transkei territory. With the view, it is believed, of assisting in the projected occupation of Merv, the Russian Government has increased the number of soldiers on the station of Askabad to S9OO. January 18. The floating of the Hawking Hill Goldmining Company, New South Wales, has provoked a correspondence in the Daily News. The day after the prospectus appeared, correspondence drew attention to the similarity between it and that of the British Australian Company, which was attempted to be s arted some time ago. This Messrs. Ashursts, Morris, and Co., solicitors, explained that they had purchased interests in the British Australian Company, and that the directors of the new company were satisfied as to the bona fides of the venture. Mr. Alfred Fairfax one of the directors, and who knows the locality, has also written to the same paper, offering that the ground be worked. It is of the most valuable character. Mr. Dillwyn, of Swansea, communicated with Mr. Gladstone with respect to the wine duties, and the reply of the Premier states that when the Government deal with the question next session they will not omit to take into consideration the case of stronger wines. The German newspapers- contain congratulations in reference to the appoint- ' ment of Mr. Basedow as a member of the South Australian Ministry, and Education Commission. News has been received that fifty ladies have left New York for Ireland. Their object is to assist the promoters of the Irish Women's Land League in carrying out their programme. January 9. Heavy gales have been experienced at the Orkney Islands. The thunderstorms have been of unusual severity, and the downfall of snow greater than has been known for many years. -Much damage has been done to farms, some of which have been nearly destroyed. Several deaths are reported to have occurred. Intelligence has been received "from India that Theebau, King of Burmah, is dying. It is stated that unmistakable signs of insanity have developed themselves. His condition is such that his death is regarded as imminent. In Cork, a very excited feeling is manifested, and the city is practically under military control. Sentries are placed in the streets, and all passers-by are subjected to challenge. The utmost precautions are considered necessary to prevent disturbance. The condition of anarchy in Armenia has become so great that Earl Dufferin, British Ambassador to Constantinople, has been instructed to make representations on the subject to the Porte. His Excellency has had several interviews with the Sultan, and has urged upon him the absolute necessity of some remedial measures being applied such as were promised under the treaty entered into with Great Britain. Much alarm has been caused iu America by the spread of small-pox. The number of cases during the past four months has greatly increased, especially in California, and the authorities are called upon to take more stringent measures of precaution. In consequence of the unsettled condition of the country, and the attempts made to tamper with the loyalty of the men, the Irish Executive have decided that the Irish militia shall not be embodied during the present year. A steamer has just arrived at Liverpool from New Orleans, which reports that much damage was occasioned to the vessel by the explosion of an infernal machine. The outrage is attributed to Fenian agency, and a strict investigation is being held into the circumstances.