LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 239, 12 December 1894, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Per Press Association.)

Received 5.20 p.m. London, December 10. Lord Monkswell in also mentioned as successor to Lord Hopetoun as governor of Victoria. December 11. The Standard and Chronicle comment on the wreck of the Wairarnpa case and express concurrence with the finding of the court.

The Chronicle, in referring to the cricket match England v. Australia, which begins at Sydney on Friday declares that the team picked to represent Australia is a superb one. The officials of tha Colonial Office give a guarded denial to the statement that Lord Braasev will succeed Lord Hopetoun. They say Lord Hopetoun’s successor Ims not yet been elected, and the appointment will he submitted to the Queen for consideration before it is made public. It is understood Lord Hopetoun will receive six months leave of absence to date from April next. St. Johns, December 10. Their is a financial panic in Newfoundland. The Cnion, Commercial, and Government Savings Banks besides many firms, have suspended payment within the last few days. Paris, December 11. The Prince of Wales, Emperor William of Germany and other royalists have sent letters of sympathy to the widow of the lute Ferdinand de I.easeps. Received 1 a.m. London, December 11. In a glove fight between “ Dummy ” Winters, tho Australian pugilist, and George Smith, the latter had his jaw fractured, the injuries being so severe that he died soon afterwards. Winters has been arrested.

arrested. Colonial stocks are recovering and showing a brisk business. Capetown, December 11. After a prolonged discussion of the whole situation with Sir Henry Loch, President Krunger, of Transvaal, signed the New Swar/iland Convention. Received 10.10 a.m. London, December 10. Sir 11. Wrixton, speak ng at the Colonial Institute, said the chief significance of the conference at Ottawa was the warm feeling of common brotherhood evoked by the representative gathering of tho empire. Improvements in steam and electricity would soon render possible better facilities for communication enabling a degree of national concentration to ba attained, and was calculated to entirely overpower the weakness at present inherent in the expansion of the Empire. Berlin, December 10. The Government request the Reichstag to prosecute the Socialists who took part in the recent scone for lent-, majestm. Received 10.45 a.m. Paris, December 11. Seven hundred French troops have arrived in Madagascar. London, December 11. Several sporting reporters and others who were present at the Winter-Smith fight have byen arrested ns accessories to the rnanslaughtei of Smith. Silver is quoted at 2s bjd.