LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 96, 8 January 1894, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Bv Electric Telegraph Cop.vri; (Per Press Association.) Received rt p.m.

Fighting in America. Nkw York, Janunrv »• News is received that heavy lighting has taken place between Honduras Nicaragua, and the latter has captured I u Trouble in Sicily. Romk, -lanliars f». | I resh severe conHicts have taken plan* between the troops and peasant i\ in Sicily. and ninny of the latter wen shot. Settling Matabeleland. ( 'ai*i town. January t>. I Sir 11. Loch and Mr Cecil Rhodes ha vs I arranged terms for settling the occupa j tiou of Matabeleland. The Colonial Loans. January fi. llie Times states the reaction in favoi of colonial loans is justified, but is carried quite far enough for the present. New Oriental Bank. London, January fi. Ihe liquidators of the New* Oriental Hank estimate that the total dividends w*fi amount to 12a fid in the £ instead of The Ardlamont Murder. London, Jan. ♦>. In connection with the death of Lieu tenant II unbrough. Monsen explains that the missing witness Scott is re ally Sweenv. a bookmaker, who came to Ardluinont to I induce deceased to settle wagers. Ham brough requiring time invited Sweeny to remain as a guest under an AHHtinie*d name. Monsen declares Sweeny is still in London and w’ill probably surrender himself if necessary. New Battleships. London, Jan. fi. lie* Government intend building (Jo MTiuiH'it ti.ttl. -lup» like the Magnificent an.l Miijestie for the station, gun bom-, twelve torpedo destroyer* like the twenty already ordered, beside* two cruisers of a type powerful and terrible. Decrease in Business. . LoNiMiN.Jan.fi. I>unng the month the imports of the Llilted Kingdom decreased in value bv ,u, d the exports bv two million. Alleged Libel.

Paris, January 7. ount Xavier Chapel 1 Ims instituted proceedings for libel against Ctneral and Mrs Brown, residents of Nice, for alleging that h. was nn escaped convict fro.., New Caledonia, and had acted as Master ... ' •" “*«»*•« at pul.ltc ball* ia Ualbonrn. The Matabele War.

I.am*, tows. January 7. Mng Lobengusla. with 2000 warriors, reported to b«* in tin* Zambesi country, mid other Matebole *rc .t lligali. a position north of ltulawav,, \ Court of Enquiry held at Buiaway,, as to ho failure of Major I'orhcs' d. ta l,m< m to capture Looeugula »|iows that tlie colunui escaped by the barest chance. No addmonai news has lx-, ~ received a. to the fate of the detachment under Cap tain \\ ilsoti. '