LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 134, 11 April 1894, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

(Per Pres, Association.) By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j Received 7 p.m. London, April !>. Augur.in von Myers was to-day i charged with forgery relative to j llossof. a Margossian factory owner. , and the prO'«cutor declaees that Myers said that he was a rich physician from j Adelaide and a lucky speculator at j Broken Hill. On faith of bis lauda- | tory credentials the latter borrowed £3OO pending the arrival of his remit- | Vance. Plaintiff added that in 1891 it j was arrang'd to start Margossian : .took broking in Adelaide, and after obtaining the turn of £2OOO accused mulsh'd. lit has been remanded. Sir IB ury laxh has obtained six months leave of absence from the ! Cape, but unexpectedly returns to the colony. New Yoke, April 10. An hotel and theatre in Milwaulkee were destroyed by fire. Sixteen persons were killed. The estimated damage is half a million dollars. St. John. April 10. The Newfoundland government has resigned. Received 12.50 a.in. Lospon, April 10. Respecting the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company the Hon. A. J. Mundella. in his examination. denied that he was aware that t he prospectuses regarding the security of ilebenlurcs were misleading, hut thought them only ambiguous. He condemned the colonial boards greedim -- for business, and over-trading up to th. hill against which he had protest, d. The suggestion that he was guilty of a policy of concealment was a gross injustice, but he thought it would be injurious to inform shareholders of Mr 1 jxrkwortiiy's report Wtlhonl continuation. Mr Paul, he said, never mentioned the Companv’s holdings of YVaika.o . .nd in c,nnec lion with the balanc. sheet of 1891. The judge described the Companv’s transactions in Waikato land as unjustifiable as investments. li.uu, April 10. King Huben warmly assured tin reprt sentalivc of [.a Figaro of th. pfound sympathy that Italy held to want. Franc, which would he mani (e,t..l'.in.. day. Italy, h. said. Cow

plained of the French tariff. Throe Emperors and himself wished for peace.

I The King m.d Queen visited her majesty Queen Victoria to-day. Bio de Janeiro. April 10. Two hundred Brazilian refugees .scaped to the Argentine, whence Portuguese warships are about to sail.

London, April 10.

S r Charles Bussell, one of the British delegates to the Behring Sea l'. :.(■ lie.-, d. e .i it 1 e'ljriltg - : Fisheries Bill gives no impunity for ships sailing jiri.ir to publication of th. regulations, as alleged by American fisherman.

New— is received that twenty acres of crops and brickmnking and other trades in New Australia are flourish

Obituary—Lord Bowen. A serious mutiny lias broken nut among the men of the l>orset regiment stationed in Belfast as a protest against the muiuerous parades. Many arrests have been made.

Mr Gordon Bennett has purchased th. yacht Vigilant, ami will race her at Cowes this season.

Hawes' protected bullet proof l cuirass has been subjected to test. The inventor submitted himself, and was shot ai. bin felt nothing. A hors, similarly protected was not hurt. The appeal of the Australian Svar v. Bennett, of the Evening News, Sydney, was allowed wilk costs. The upp.al was against the decision of the Supreme Court granting a new trial m ihe libel ca-. News v. Stair, in which the Is Received 11 a.ui. London, April 10. • fusing to give the Evicted Tenant's Bill equal precedence with the Electors’ Registration Bill tin dissentient Radicals yielded to the Government when Sir \ . Harcourt’s motion to take away private members' day came to the vote. Th, Pamellites abstained kom voting on the question. The I nionist Pres ,l,dar, ■ that a repri -ve lias lieen afforded the Government, but the success of Sir V. Ilareourt s j motion will bo it rv brief. Obituary—Marquis of Ailsbury. | » must see the financial statement on 1 which the reconstruction scheme of I N,-w Z< aland Loan and Mercantile \gency Company was based before b decided to sanction or reject the I scheme. A representative of the ; , Creditors' Committee stated that it j was basisl on the report furnished to the Official Receiver by Messrs Tor- : qiiard, Young and Co., and it is their j figuri - that his Honour wishes to see. ; The Creditors' Committee meet to-day | to consider th, , fleet ihe evidence elicited by Judge Williams' examina- | tion will liaxe on the scheme as at present drawn up. Sir James Fer- I guson is now in the witness box. Rio de Ja.mkko, April 10. It is reported that Admiral I)e I Gama and several of his offie rs have j escaped from the Portuguese warships. New You x, April 10. By a fire in somo stables at | Baltimore IS!) racehorses were burned j to death. The total loss by fire is ' estimated at £1,000,000.