NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume IX, Issue 439, 25 November 1898, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

PLAGUE RIOTS IN INDIA. Bombay, November 22. Plague riots have occurred at Seringapatam. 10,000 Hindoos and Mahommedans attacked the authorities with guns, swords, and axes. A number of persons were killed. 134 prisoners were arrested. The cavalry are being reinforced. The plague is increasing at Madras, while it also exists in severe form at Bangalore and the central provinces. THE GREAT AFRICAN RAILWAY, Capetown, November 22. Cecil Rhodes, replying to criticism on the Northern Railway tariff, stated that the line would have reached Egypt by now if there had been no disputes. He regargded the Buluwayo railway as the key-hole of Africa. He intended to proceed with the Tanganyika railway forthwith, as cheap labor was obtainable. The Congo River could be utilised to construct irrigation, works. Mr Shriener, the Cape Premier, sympathises with Cecil Rhodes’ appeal for support for the Northern Railway, which he designated as a greet street through Africa. AMERICAN-SPANISH PEACE COMMISSION. Washington, November 21. Spain, yielding to the advice of Germany and Austria, accepts America’s conditions, but repudiates responsibility for the Philippines and the Cuban debts. Washington, November 22. The American Peace Oommisioners offered four million pounds for the Philippines, with open door to the world, and are prepared to conclude a treaty admitting Spanish vessels and merchandise for five years on the same conditions as America. There was to be a mutual renunciation of indemnity claims on Cuba. Spain has been given a week in which to accept. The Spanish Commissioners are now adopting a more friendly tone.

EXECUTION OF ARCHER. Melbourne, November 21. Archer has made a full confession of having murdered his mate Matthews. He informed his spiritual adviser that he committed the offence to obtain money. Bad company and fast living, he says, led to the crime. Archer paid the penalty to-day. Death was instantaneous. BRITAIN AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Paris, November 21. Le Debats believes a rapproachemeut but not an alliance exists between Germany and Britain. Le Figaro says the Kaiser on the homeward journey avoided French waters, being unwilling to alienate Great Britain, and that his abandonment of his proposed trip to Spain is the result of his not wishing to cause umbrage with America. M. Paul Cassagnac urges France to revive privateering rights, with a yiew to circumventing Great Britain. Constantinople, November 21. Unless Turkey satisfies American claims with regard to the destruction of American missions in Armenia, America threatens to make a naval demonstration in Turkisk waters. Capetown, November 21. A case of plague is reported from Delagoa Bay. Sydney, November 21. Viscount Hampden has resigned the Governorship on private grounds, and will probably leave the colony about March. St. Petersburg, November 21. A rocket factory has been blown up at Nicolasco, a Russian naval station on the Black Sea. Twenty-one persons were killed. London, November 22. Since the institution of the preferential tariff by Canada, a large increase in the importation of British textiles has resulted. The Sirdar is at present on a three days’ visit to the Queen. Paris, November 22. A kiosk-keeper was killed and eight persons injured by an explosion in a cafe in the city.