HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6226, 8 April 1895, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

,'Bt Elzctrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (per united pres3 association. ) Received April 7, at 10.45 a.m. London, April 7. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the Sultan of Turkey has invited i's editor to proceed to Armenia as an independent Commissioner in connection with the inquiry into the recent atrocities. Lords Sel borne, Cross, and Egerton are appealing for L 20,000 to maintain Church Defence Committees in every parish of England. Oscar Wilde was remanded till Thursday. Bail was not allowed. The Pope will issue an appeal at Easter urging the Protestants of England to favor the union with the Roman Catholic Church. The Clonmel Bench committed for trial nine residents of Ballyvaloa for the murder of Bridget Cleary. The unfortunate woman was roasted over a fire in order to extort the admission that she was a witch. The husband, father, aunts, and cousins of the victims are implicated in the crime. Received April 8, at 10.45 a.m. Calcutta, April 8. News has been received that the first Chitral brigade entered Swat and drove back a force of 5000 natives who barred the road. The guides' corps and cavalry subsequently charged 1200 of the enemy, cutting up 30 of their number. The rest fled to the hills. A lame fcrce of the enemy had collected at Thana, but they quietly dispersed when warned to do so. St. Petersburg, April 7. A hotel building which was being constructed in Nijni Novgorod collapsed, and 30 workmen were buried beneath the debris. Sixteen of the number were kUled. London, April 7. Shares in the Londonderry mine are quoted at 12s 6d. Colonel North explains that the cash and shares he has deposited become the property of the shareholders unless the dividends named are paid. Sir W. Yernon-Harcourt states that the local veto will not apply to Ireland. Rome, April 7. The Pope has appointed the Rev Father John Gallagher, coadjutor, Bishop of Goulbourn, New South Wales. Beklln, April 7. Baron Leist, Governor of the Cameroons, who was charged with ill-treating native women, has been dismissed from the service of the German Government. Paris, April 7. Parisian society is petrified at Oscar Wilde's exposure. Lonuon, April 7. The Rimutaka left Plymouth to-day for Wellington and Lyttelton. London, April 7. Silver 2s 5d fifteen-sixteenths. Tallow—Medium mutton, 22s 9d; beef, 21s 3d. Three months bills are discounted at g to 1 per cent. The poultry market is hardening owing to the scarcity of English supplies. INIERPRO VINCIAL NEWS. (BY TELEGRAPH.) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. April 8. No agreement has yet been arrived at about the umpire for the Midland Railway arbitration. When the Court opens the proceedings are expected to last a month, unless the matters to be laid before it are curtailed by agreement between the parties. DUNEDIN. April 8. A six-roomed house at Mornington, owned and occupied by Cunlifie, a compositor, was totally destroyed by fire last night while the family were at church. Insurances : House L 175, efiects LSO, in the Manchester Office. Sew Hoy's return is 570z lldwts retorted gold. John Dick, the oldest printer in Dunedin, is dead ; aged 77.