LATEST CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 35

LATEST CABLES

.; ; . IX)NDON, Tuesday. ' : Alderman Alfred James Newton, of •The Wood, Sydenham Hill, S.E., who represented the Bassishaw Ward, is the Lord' Mayor-elect of London. He was sheriff in 1888, and alderman in 1890. - F. C. V. Lane, the New South Wales swimmer,"-beat J. a. Jarvis, of Leicester, -•one of vue. English cracks, in a quarter- • mile scratch race at the Westminster -Baths, by a touch. The time was'6min.' ; Lane was exhausted at the finish. '■ Miss Ada Crossley, the Australian contralto j has been honoureu with a com- ■ mand to sing before her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral Castle.. The British revenue for the quarter just ended shows a total of £20,4164000. Customs duties yielded £4,782,000; ex- ' cise duties £8,423,000; and stamps - £2,080,000. The Governments of the three Powers ■" interested in Samoa are - studying a scheme under which each Power would bo responsible for the maintenance of - peace m a defined area or the group. • ■; VIENNA, Monday. ' A new Austrian Ministry has been c formed to succeed that headed by Count Thun-Hohenstein, which resigned, a few, - days ago. Count Clary-et-A-drmgen will be Premier in the new Cabinet, and will also take the portfolio of Minister of Interior. NEW YORK, Sunday. The Filipino insurgents in the island •'of Mindanao, the southernmost large - island in the Philippine group, ' have tendered their submission to General ,- Otis', the American Commander-in-Chief. ■;:.: The. inhabitants of Garcia Fernandez, en the island of Bohol, one of the -largest in the Visayas Archipelago, in . the middle portion of the group, have also submitted. In the betting upon the coming raoes - for the America Cup, which begin on Tuesday, the 3rd instant, the United ; States yacht Columbia is the favourite. News has been received of the burning .1. of the steamer Montaya on the Magdar' lena river, in the Republic of Columbia. . NEW YORK, Tuesday. For the first race between the Sham- , rock .'challenger) and Columbia for the American Cup. to be sailed to-day, the ... b&tting is now even. ":.: -A brisk wind is forecasted, and it is / considered that this would be in Sham- . rock's favour. OTTAWA, Sunday. Further reports as to the stranding of 1 the Dominion liner Scotsman, now ashore in the Straits of Belle Isle, between Labrador and Newfoundland, show that the disaster has had more serious consequences than was at first supposed. Eleven of the Scotsman's passengers were drowned. Complaints are made of insubordinate " conduct on the part of the crew. OTTAWA, Monday. Twenty-three members of the crew of the Scotsman have been arrested at Montreal on a charge of looting passengers' luggage. PARIS, Sunday. ; Definite news has been received from the Franco-African expedition under M. Fourneau and Colonel Lamby, which was recently stated to have been annihilated by Tuaregs. The partv has now reached the oasiskingdom of Air, or Asben, situated some short distance north-west of Lake Tchad. The earlier reports of disaster to the expedition prove to have been much exaggerated. It is true that it came into collision twith hostile natives, but its losses were limited to the loss of two members. [The ioiission entrusted to M. Fourneau, who was recently awarded the gold medal of the'-sJo'yal Geographical Society, attracted little or no attention in Great Britain, though" its object was one of considerable importance, both from a and from.a commercial point of view. M. Four-

*nea.u(, .who was an official in; the col on trjl with the.grade dfV'LAdmihistraTeiirj"' "was instructed last year by'the Miriiste'ri.f the French Colonies to explore the unknown country lying between the, arid* the upper Ogpwe/y*aliey. Xbe - "Sariga "is" a" considerable stream,: which joins the Congo, .some. 100 miles ~ abb 'e Bolbbo.' It is navigable for several h«n,dred miles -above its point of junction with . "the niain stream, and for a short distance . forms "the boundary between the Camerooi.s and the French Congo Colony. In this manner Germany obtains access to the Congo basin by a navigable waterway; but a recent attempt made by the Governor of- the Cameroons to reach German territory by way of the Congo was unsuccessful, as the steamer in which the attempt was made proved not to be ox sufficiently light draught. A glance at a map of Africa v ill show that between the Sanga and the upper waters of the Ogowe River is a wide stretch of country, the features of which are only indicated in the vaguest possible manner. It was to ascertain, the character of this unknown country and to open up relations with its. inhabitants that the Fournean-Lamy expedition was organised.] ' „. : ■ BERLIN, Tuesday. The Geographical Congress has resolved to send an expedition to search for traces of Dr Ludwig Leichhardt's expedi- . tion, which disappeared m the interior, of Australia in 1848^ SYDNEY, Monday. The revenue returns of Now South ■ Wales for the quarter just ended sliow an increase of £IB,OOO as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. The O'Halloran drowned in the Rose Bay boating accident was a boy. Mr Win. Aitken, of the firm of Aitken and Scott, meters, has just died here. Deceased was a prominent bowler, and was well known in New Zealand. Reports received via Noumea state that a Presbyterian missionarv and some teachers have been murdered on the. island of Tanna, in the New Hebrides. No particulars are given. The annual Eigne Hours Demonstration was held to-day in fine weather. The damage done by the fire at Kiama, by which fifteen business premises in the niain street were destroyed, amounted to £7OOO. A private cablegram received here, states that the steamer Aberdeen picked up the steamer Gulf of Genoa, bound from Manchester to Sydney. ..The .Gulf of .Genoa, had •her-'shaft broken,.and the Aberdeen towed her into Algo a Bay. ' . . It is suggested here,, in connection .nvith a. previous advice, that the Gulf of Genoa nas probably been mistaken for the Waikato. ' '■ .:.■" [The cablegram speaks of the Aberdeen as "homeward -bound front Australia." Zvlost ..probably, ;:; however, the salving steamer was the Aberdeen "White Star liner, 3684 -tons,, Captain A. Rpbb, which left London for Australian ports, via Capetown, on, the 29th August. The Gulf of-Genca,. 3448.-tons, Captain Swan, left .Manchester for Sydney on the 24th August'/ "Algoa Bay i£ a broad ■ inlet at the, eastern' extremity .of the south coast of s Africa. On the bay stands Port ' Elizabeth. It is to. -be noted that no ~- was received through tne Press Association that the Waikato had been towed into Port Elizabeth. The news came to hand by private messages. In the absence of details, the hope will be generally nourished tnat both the Waikato and the Gulf of Genoa may have found a haven in Algoa Bay.] . • -SYDNEY, Tuesday. In consequence of reports of a disturbance at Tanna, in the New Hebrides, received by H.M.S. Wallaroo, that warship has been ordered to return to the group from Noumea The "Daily Teiegraxm," in its preliminary estimate of the wneat crop, states that the outlook is promising. There is ten per cent, more land under crop than last year. The total yield is estimated at fourteen and a half million bushels. - - v- Monday. The condition of xn- Fraser, who was shot by his wife last week in a street of St. Kilda, shows improvement. The medical faculty considers the case a very remarkable one, seeing, that th*> injured man still survives with a bullet embedded in his brain. • • : ■• MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Hard frosts and the want of rain are ■ damaging " the ' crops' in the northern districts. Major Thompson of the 7th Dragoons, Captain Birch of the Royal Artillery, and two veterinary surgeons have arrived from England to inquire into the capabilities of Australia for supplying horses for the British Army. Their visit is the outcome of remonstrances made some time back about purchases of horses for the army being made in South America. HOBART, Tuesday. As a result of the adverse finding of a Select Committee regarding his connection with the acceptance of certain tenders when he was acting as Warden of ' the Strahan Marine Board, Captain Miles has resigned the portfolio of Lands and Works ADELAIDE, Monday. The death is announced of the Rev Canon Scott, a prominent Anglican. The weather here is most unseasonable. Snow has fallen in many parts of the Colony, including some localities where it has not been seen for thirty years. ~.."',.'. ~ - . . -■- South Australia's revenue for the quarter shows an increase of over £48,000 upon that of the corresponding quarter of 1898. ADELAIDE, Tuesday. ■ An epidemic of influenza prevails in this city.

T&e Premier '*(Mr.Kingston)''/ajull.tife .majority of his are 'aihbngst the sufferers. '" 4 Only two'members' of the Cabinet are able to attend at their offices. • ... Many business bouses r .are also shorthanded through the illness of members ,of their-staffs. . , " .‘b .■ - ’;. ~;]^^CASTX^;;^l6nclay.::' : The coal returns for th© past nine months show a falling-off as compared with those for the same pteriod of last year of 51,000 tons in the intercolonial trade* and 32,000 tons for the United States. An increase took place in the trade with the Philippines and Sandwich Islands of 51,000 tons. The South American trade continues to expand. - Although the gross export decreased by 33,000 tons, the value increased by £13,500. New Zealand took 12,000 tons this year than last. BRISBANE, Monday. A safe containing £BO in notes and gold was stolen from the Adelaide' Shipping Company’s office at Cairns,' North Queensland. The robber, however, was tracked and the money recovered. s The Commission of Inquiry into the working of the Police Department, has •til© Gatton- tragedy under review; expressed a belief that Michael Murphy was coaxed, not forced, into tee paddock where the murders . were perpetrated. MpNeill also said ' lie had his own suspicion as to who committed the murders, but lie gave no particular reason for his suspicion. He complained about, the police worrying him over the affair. ” BRISBANE, Tuesday. The barque Banca, from Glasgow,"has signalled Cape Moreton stating that she spoke th© steamer Waikato on the 2nd September. No details will be available until, the barque enters the Bay. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The New Zealand -Shipping Company has been advised from London that the news received on Saturday in respect of the. - Waikato--was incorrect. The doubt whether the vessel towed into Port- Elizabeth on Friday was the disabled steamer Waikato, of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet, proves unfortunately to be only too well found- , ed. Mr J. Bufnes, the Wellington manager for the company, has received a telegram from headquarters embodying a cablegram from London, which stated that the report that the Waikato, had been towed into Port Elizabeth was withcut foundation. . The _ V explanation cf this disappointment evidently is that the . authorities .. ’. at the South African port had seen the Gulf .of Genoa bein" towed into Algoa Bay by the steamer Aberdeen and had jumped to the conclusion that the disabled steamer was the Waikato. Now, however, comes the satisfactory news that the disabled steamer has again been spoken. This is the third time that the Waikato has been spoken since she broke down on June sth. Each time she lias been, met by a sailing vessel—on July SO th by the barque Taeora, on August 3rd by the barque Aalborg, and now on September 2nd by the Banca. The news will be particularly welcome to those immediately interested in the steamer on account of the reaction that must have followed the news that it was not the Waikato which had been towed into Port Elizabeth. Though it* is thirty-one days -sine© the - Banca- spoke the Waikato, there is the satisfactory assurance that the steamer -was still afloat on that date. -.lt will be interesting to know the exact position where the two vessels met, and’- to ascertain' the distance that' the Waikato has drifted since she was. spoken by the Aalborg in hit. 39 S.. long. 'B9 E.", and whether the engine-room staff has yet been able to get a turn out of the propeller., • The Banca left Glasgow .on June 24th,and therefore has completed the voyage Jo Brisbane in 101 days.. She is an iron- barque of 949 tons register, and is' commanded by Captain Wood.