LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 576, 29 November 1897, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Ter tress Association. Received This Pay, 9.50 a.m. Ten Years for Embezzlement London, November 28. Sturrock, who was arrested at Melbourne, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for embezzling moneys of the British Linen Coy.’s Bank. An Injunction. London, November 28. Mr Laboucbere has obtained an injunction restraining Henry Hess, the editor of the South African Critic, from publishing Mr Labouchere’s letter! to the late George Augustus Sola. Received 10.83. A Threatened Strike. London, November 28. The cotton operatives who agreed to submit the question of the reduction of wages to arbitration have rejected the terms of arbitration proposed by the employers and have given notice to go on strike on December 14th. To the Front. London, November 28. Altogether 30 commissioned and 800 non-commissioned officers havo been sent out to West Africa to command 3')00 troops in Lagos. Discredited. The Hinterland Flench and English colonial officers both discredit the native report that the Frencii forces have defeated the English at Nikki. The commanders of both forces had orders to avoid cootlict. A Complaint. Athens, November 28. The Cretan Assembly has decided to organise a force of 1300 gendarmes and complain of the delay of tin Lowers m putting the scliemo of autonomy for the island i'. force. Turkey Defies Russia. Constantinople, November 28. Turkey, in defiance of the warning from Russia, ha 3 ordered 130 Krupp cannon. The Political Fight in Austria Vienna, November 28. After his expulsion Wolff returned to lieichsrath and was immediately arrested, gagged, and taken to gaol.