CABLEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4097, 29 December 1887, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HOME AND FOREIGN. (rEDTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Received December 28, at 10.30 p.m. London, December 26. The frozen meat cargo of the ShawSavill and Albion Company's Coptic, which arrived at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon, has been examined and found in good condition. London, December 27. The Australian mails, dated Melbourne, November 27, per P. and O. Company's Thames, via Brindisi, were delivered today. The British Government have received an official assurance from the French Government that the evacuation of the New Hebrides will be completed within the time specified in the recently concluded convention. New York, December 26. The strike on the Philadelphia and Beading railroad, consequent upon the refusal of the company to cease employing non-Unionist workmen, has termined, the dispute having been settled by arbitration. St. Petersburg, December 27. It is understood that the Czar, with the Imperial family, will take up his residence in the Caucasus early in the spring. Cairo, December 27. News from Masaowah reports that the ] Abyssinians with a strong force are advancing rapidly to attack the Italian troops. Received December 29, at 1,35 a.m. Berlin, December 27. His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince has refused to entertain the proposal made for the establishment of a Regency in the event of the death of the Emperor "William. St. Petersburg, December 27. I The harsh measures resorted to in deal- ' lag with the students of the universities! have given rise to a strong .feeling of popular discontent. His Imperial Majesty the Czar, in response to an appeal from the students, has ordered an inquiry to be held into their grievances. London, December 27. The Admiralty has ordered the gunboat Stork, and the new gunboat Lizard, to prepare to join the Australian Squadron. These vessels are to take the place of sailing vessels on the station. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received December 29, at 1.15 a,m. London, December 28. It is announced that the Admiralty have decided to replace all her Majesty's sailing vessels on the Australian, station with steamships. Mr Gladstone, on his arrival at Dover, was hooted end snowballed. He addressed the assemblage, and eaid it was impossible to rely upon the present Government for the continuance of freetrade. The Liberals, he argued, would not stand by and Bee the work of a century undone. c . 'l° a Bubear ridicules the challenge he has received by cable from Hanlan to row on the Thames for LSOO and the champion- j ship of England, and for LSOO a side on the Tyne for the championship of the' world, as if the championship were hold by Hanlan. The Earl of Dunraven, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, suggests that the House of Lords should consist of 100 members, elected from the peers of the realm. The Daily Telegraph is advocating a systematic emigration of unemployed and others to Western Australia. AUSTRALIAN. (RBUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Received December 28, at 12 25 p.m. Melbourne, December 28. The Union steamship, Mararoa, passed Wilson's Promontory this morning, bound for this port. The Theatre Royal narrowly esoaped destruction by fire yesterday afternoon. The fire broke out in the workshop below the theatre and was only extinguished when the flames were spreading to the adjoining buildings. I Up to the present time a quarter of a I million feet of space has been applied for at the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition. The death is announced of Sir Robert Dalrymple Ross, Speaker of the South Australian Assembly. Received December 28, at 10.35 p.m. Melbourne, December 28. It Is reported that several cancelled pound notes of the Bank of Australia have been circulating in the city recently. The circumstances point to a theft having been committed from the unisauable note department of the bank. The number of notes abstracted is not yet known, but it is believed to be small. No proof exists of any official being; implicated in the affair. Sailed—Union Company,s Manapoari, for the Bluff, this afternoon. Sydney, December 28. Sailed—Union Company's Zealandla, for Auckland, with the Homeward San Francisco mail. Lord Carnarvon has given an emphatic denial to the assertion attributed to Mr Justin M'Carthy, that his lordship was a supporter of Mr Gladstone's system of Home Rule. Brisbane, December 28. . A letter has been received from the prospecting party at Mount Macdonald which states that millions of tons of "stuff," consisting for the most part of dry volcanic ash, have been found in the mountain, measuring 800 feet in height and three miles in circumference. It is not yet proved whether gold runs through the mountain. Received December 29, at 1.35 a.m. Melbourne, Deoember 28. Mr Bates is rapidly recovering from the effects of his accident, and his Bight is reported to be unimpaired.