CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10244, 29 December 1894, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

————n» ■ ■ - ■"-. BRITISH AND FOIIEIGN.

Special—By Telegraph—Copyright. LORD R. CHURCHILL. London, December 27. Lord Randolph Churchill shows a slight improvement, buS it is believed to be of only a temporary character. THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE WAZIRIS. Colonel Mercer, with 600 men and a number of gnus, destroyed the Waziris' defence at Gnarikoa, and by explosion,*, levelled the towers and -walls at Karani. Only a few on the side of the British were wounded. OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID. A sarious ou.sbrs3.lc of typhoid fever is reported from Syracuse, in Bicily. Up to the' present 200 cases hays bean recorded,! and upwards of 100 succumbed ia a few days THE NEWFOUNDLAND ORISiS. Dacamber 2.8. Mr Cook (manager) and four directors of the Commercial Baak of Newfoundland have besa artesiad ou a charge of submitting a fates balance sheet by including among the (assets securities atortgaged to the London and Westminster Bank co meet advances. The commission eot'np'to ioquira into the depression recommend ths Government to endorse 30 per ceut. of the Commercial Bank's notes,'and S5 por cent, of those or the Union Bank. .

DUTY ON COTTON. „, The Indian Legislative Council has adoptsd import and escias cotton duties.

Presß Assoaiation—By TeU'irriph— CopyriEht. AN ABSOONDSE. *', New Yokk, Decomber 28. Libbart, the abaeondicg manager of the Union Bank, Capetown, has bean arrested ia Cincinnati on a charge oi havicg committed forgeries amounting to L 120.000.

INTERCOLONIAL.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE WEATHER FOR THS TEST MATCH. Helboueke, December 2S.' Heavy rain fail during ths day, and every efEort was made to protect the wicket by covering it with tarpaulius, but at Stoddart'a request they were removed, rs he considered it better to have this wicket wholly wet than oca half wet. At a late hour to-night the rain ceased. '•■■•- ■