NEWS BY CABLE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 169, 3 February 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 80. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has upproved of a subvention of £250,000 for the purpose of securing merchant steamers as cruisers iu time of war.

It is understood in diplomatic circles that Germany is endeavoring to ascertain what attitude Sweden will adopt in tho event of war.

Cardinal Manning prohibited tho celebration of a Requiem Mass at Kensington Cathedral on Tuesday on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender. The spread of small pox in England is causing great alarm. The greatest spread is ut Sheffield. A thousand cases have been reported during January, and prayers were offered in the churches yesterday for the abatement of the epidemic.

January 81. The first of this year's wool sales opened to-day. There was a large attendance of Horae and foreign buyers, the latter being for the most part Continental. The catalogue comprised 11500 bales, lialfof which were recieved from New South Wales and Queensland. Bidding was extremely keen, and the tone strong, pricey being fully equal to the highest November rates. Crossbreds are firm at five per cent, advance, and the market is very pro. raising. The arrivals are 853,000 bales, and the total available for the series is 288,000 bales.

Jem Smith has issued a challenge to Sullivan for a fight to a finish. The lion. W. H. Smith, in a speech, announced that the Government would introdue a measure next session having for its object the eimplificatfon of tithes. He argued that the Irish policy

of the Government was the (vest that could be pursued under existing circumstances. aud they intended to persevere with it. He repudiated the idea of a return to Protection, but thought that the Government would probably agree to the conversion of consols.

Calcutta, January 30. The Maharajah Jhodpoor lias intimated his intention of giving ten lacks of rupees (£100.000) towards the cost of the dufeuce of the frontier.

January 31. A British regimeut lias been sent from one of the northern stations to assist in opening up the road to Thibet, which has iiecn practically closed by gangs of Thibetan marauders.

Pksth. January 80. Herr Tisza's emphatic assurances that the terms of the triple alliance would be preserved intact, and his pacific utterances with reference to the attitude to be preserved by the alliance towards Russia, havo had a soothing effect thoughout the whole of Europe. Constantinocle, January 80. News has been received here to the effect that the Turkish police recently mudo a forcible eutry into the chambers of tho French Consulate at Damascus in order to arrest an Algerian. The latter is a French subject, and his arrest was resisted. The French Government have since demanded reparation for the alleged insult.

The Sultan is alarmed at the Russian movements in Asia Minor, and intends appealing to England and Austria on the subject. St. Petersburg, January 80. A Russian officer has been brought to St. Petersburg hospital in a dying condition. He made a confession to tho effect that he was chosen, by ballot of the secret society to which lie Wlongs, to shoot the Czar, and that failing to carry out the duty which had fallen to him, he became fearful of tlio consequences which would result to him at the hands of his fellow conspirators, and therefore attempted suicide. The increases in the armaments in Poland and Bessarabia are still being continued. The Press in this city are greately irritated at Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, for not making any allusion to Bulgarian affairs in las recent speech in the Diet. January 81. The movements of troops westward steadily continues. It is reported that a portion of the forced loan recently raised will be expended in completing the Siberian Pacific. Antwerp, January 30. At the wool sales to-day 884 hales of Austrahau wool were catalogued, of which 522 bales were sold. The present stock consists of 500 bales. Rome, January 80. Signor Crispi, the Premier, is about to submit fresh proposals to the French Government relative to tho establishment of a commercial treaty between the two countries. If the proposals are not accepted then parleying on the subject will cease.*Gi.ahc.ow, January 80. Tlio latest news to hand from Lewis indicates that affairs in that island are assuming a more pacific phase. Vienna, January 80. The Minister of Finance has announced that Austria will only abolish the sugar bounties if the other Powers interested adopt the same course.

Berlin, January 30. The physicians who have been in attendance on the Crown Prince state that the clinical symptoms are opposed to cancer. The swelling in the throat is now only very light, and the breath ing is easy. The Socialist Bill has been referrel to a committee, hut it is considered unlikely that the bill will become law.

January 81. Herr Bebel. a Socialist member of the Ileichstag, asserts that there are German police agents in every European capital, and that those in Ijondon incited Germans to join the Trafalgar Square riots. New York, January 80. There are indications that tho fisheries commission will dissolve without arriving at a settlement. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Young has ap|>eule<l to the Mayor of this city, representing that Hoffman, the infant musical prodigy, is being overworked at concerts, and requesting that in the cause of humanity his performances should bo restricted. A disastrous fire occurred in Broadway last night, when five lurge business places were destroyed, involving a loss of 2,000,000 dollars.

Rangoon, January 29. The rebels in Burmali have nowbeen pacified and order has been established throughout the country. Paris, January 80. Two warships have been ordered to proceed immediately to Reyrout in consequence of the difficulty which has arisen there through the forcible entry made into the chambers of the French Consul at Damascus by the Turkish police.

January 81. A man who was arrested at Boulogne on the suspicion of being concerned in the death of M‘Neil, a journalist, who disappeared after the Kmith-Kilrain fight at Rouen, has been released, the authorities after full inquiry arriving at the conclusion that M'Neil's death was not the result of foul play. Stockholm, January 80. It is announced that l*rince Oscar of Sweden has been betrothed to Miss Ebba Munch, a relative of the late Professor Munch, the Norwegian historian.

Mashowah, January 29. Everything is quiet here at present, but it is reported that the Negus has again commenced to advance, and that

an attack on the Italian troops will shortly be made. 11* iso Kono, January 29. The Chinese Government have passed a vote of 2,000.000 tads (about £'•>50,000 1 for the purpose of fortifwng the Manchurian frontier.