CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1316, 4 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN

j_REUTBU—COPYRIGHT. I LONDON, March 2. All the army establishments in the kingdom are being increased in view of the Afghan and other contingencies. The evidence which has been given at the hearing of the charges against Cunningham and' Burton, the suspected dynamiters, connects the prisonerswith complicity in [the attempted outrages at the" London Railway Terminus last year. The Shaw-Saville and Albion Company’s steamship Coptic sailed from Plymouth yesterday afternoon for New Zealand. The steamship Braemar, bound from Glasgow to Port Chalmers, put into Stornoway dismasted, having experienced a heavy -gale. She is a new vessel, owned by Henderson and Go. It is how announced that Government will hasten the passage of the bill for the redistribution of seats, and as,soon as the same has become law, Parliament will be dissolved. The cargo of frozen mutton, comprising , 1400 ■ carcases, ex steamship Tongariro, from New Zealand, was placed on the. market in good condition, ', HONG KONG, March 2. News has been received that the French fleet is engaged in bombarding Chinahai(?- : Shanghai)} ahd ; hais- htbekaded the approaches to Ningpo, one the treaty ports. - NEW YORK, March 2. General Grant is suffering-from cancer in the tongue, and his* case is considered by his medical attendants to be hopeless.