NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9866, 24 March 1893, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Electric TeleorApS. —CiiAr-iout. Stress association.) GENERAL NEWS. Paris, Miroh 22. - -, The death is announced.of M; Francois .Touide, who escaped from New Caledonia with M. Rochefort. The King of Siam has rejected the Frepph dehiands for the delimitation of the boundary along the Mekong river. St Petersburg, March 22. The Mayor of Moscow was shot while attending a meeting of the Town Council, and died shortly afterwards. London, March 22. Messrs Wright and Hobbs, charged in connection with the Liberator Building Society’s frauds, have been found guilty. Sentence has been deferred. News has been received that the Administrator of Gambier, West Africa, hoisted a flag in Pachangtown, which is situated within the British sphere. The French Governor hauled the flag down. THE Imperial Institute. , London, March 2S. The indiah Groveftimeht tVill send a Cavalry escort to attend,the Queen at the opening of the Imperial Institute., The desire has been.expressed in the highest (juart'er that the Vjc'btian Horse Artillery and New South Wales Cavalry deta'chhisiita, now on their way to England to take part in the Military Tournament, shall also form part of Her Majesty’s escort.

THE PANAMA CANAL. Paris, March 22. MM. de Lpsseps, Blondin and Baihaut have jointly been ordered to repay to the Panama Canal Company the slim of 875,000 franttsj paid to M-, Baihaut. M-. Buaaon'a Committee has applied to the Chamber of Deputies to extend its powers. Americas' Items. Washington, March 22. It is rumoured that the United States Government is arranging to borrow fifty million dollars in gold. BRITISH WARSHIP AGROUND. CAIRO, March 22. H,M.S. Ptldaiintea, under the • oomtMnd bl Lord Charles Beresford, is Aground near Alexandria. Her position is serious. (Received March 24, X a.ro.) " Later. H.M.S. Undaunted has been floated off. AMERICA AND CHINESE IMMIORATION. Washington, March 23. Mr Carlisle, the new Secretary to the Treasury, announces that the Government intend to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act. THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION. New York, March 23. Princess Kauilani, of Hawaii, expresses herself as being well satisfied with the efforts which are being made to obtain recognition of hel claims to the Hawaiian throne. FUNERAL OF M. FERRY. .. PAhis, March 23. M. Forty’s funeral took place to day in a peaceful manner. Members of the Government eulogised the patriotism of

the dead statesman. COMMERCIAL. London, March 22. Dilgety and Co.’s 4£ per cents are quoted at 112£ ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.’s 4 per cent perpetual, 03.