LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 559, 20 October 1897, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIQHT. Ppr L'resa Association. Received This Day at 9.45 a.m. Britain’s Colonial Trade. London, October 19. Speaking at Sheffield, Sir Howard Vincent said that while foreign competitors were assisted by tariffs and bounties it was sheer madness to fetter British trade with impossible conditions. Army and Navy. London, October 19. Sir Robert Finlay, SolicitorGeneral, urges the necessity of largely increasing the expenditure on the navy and army. He says it may probably be necessary to resort to a ballot in order to select citizens to serve in the militia. A Typhoid Fund. London, October 19. The Queen has given £SO to the fund started for the relief of typhoid sufferers at Maidstone. The Great Strike. London, October 19. It is suggested that efforts should be made to localise the engineers' dispute to London with a view of securing a conference with the masters and also resort to arbitration at a subsequent stage. Ecclesiastical. London, October 19. The Right Rev. William Walsh, Bishop of Mauritius, has been appointed to the Archdeaconry and Canonry of Canterbury. Bimetallism. liONDON, October 19. Fifteen hundred Manchester merchants and traders have petitioned Government in favourof bimetallism. Obituary. London, October 19. Obituary George Pullman, of Pullman Car fame. Not Dead Yet. Cairo, October 19. The report that Ras Makonnen, the Abyssinian Chief, had been killed while leading a raid against Somalis in East Africa is denied, and he is now stated to bo mobilising 110,000 troops to attack Somalis. A New Rifle. Berlin, October 19. The German Government has armed the troops with a new rifle, which is claimed to be the best weapon in the world. Poisoned at Sea. Rome, October 19. Four hundred emigrants on an Italian steamer bound for Brazil were poisoned by verdigris on cookinq utensils. Ten succumbed. Plucky Tribesmen. Calcutta, October 19. General Lockhart’s expedition to Tirali met with severe resistance in the Chagra Valley. General Biggs’ division engaged 0,000 tribesmen defending the valley, Major R. D. Jennings Bramley, of the Gordon Highlanders, who distinguished himself in the Chitral Relief Expedition in 1895, and nine British privates were killed and 58 wounded. The enemy lost heavily.

Two squadrons of the Ninth Bengal Lancers fell into an ambuscade at Mamani. One Subadhur and 14 Sowas were killed and seven wounded.