THIS MORNING’S CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 12772, 4 December 1893, Page 2

THIS MORNING’S CABLES

British and Foreign [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ] LONDON, Deo. 2. Received 3rd,-6 p.m. The moratorium asked for by the Credits Mobiliare of Rome has been granted. The reported assassination of President Piexoto of Brazil is denied. The police in Valladolid in Spain have arrested an Anarchist leader named Alonso and seized a list of the names of the authors of the Barcelona and other explosions. The arrests of Anarchists have created terror among the remaining members of the order. Two Germans have been arrested in Bourges in France, on suspicion of sending the infernal machines to the Emperor of Germany and the German Chancellor. The German Reichstag, by a majority of 40, has decided in favour of the Centre party’s bill repealing the exceptional laws against Jesuits. Wanhoffa, a former Bulgarian officer, has been arrested on a charge of being concerned in a plot to murder Prince Ferdinand. The accused, who was one of the ringleaders, has confessed his guilt. Heavy rains in Matabeleland are impeding the operations against Lobengula. A Franco-British Commission proceeds to Siam to examine and delimit the neutral zone. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go’s debenture stock has risen 3J and is now quoted at 86. Mr Alfred Holt, a Liverpool shipowner, is sending a representative to Australia to inaugurate a line of steamers between Newcastle (N.S.W.) and Fremantle (W.A.). Aiderman Dillon, a Parnellite, has been elected Mayor of Dublin. Obituary—Earl of Warwick, aged 75. Australian MELBOURNE, Deo. 3. Received 4th, 0.50 a.m. It is reported that a serious deficit has been discovered in the benevolent fund of the Masonic Lodge. When various lodges amalgamated undtr the title of the United

Grand Lodge for [four ?] constitutions dissolved and went into liquidation, which was of a very dilatory character. In one case the liquidator found a deficit of fully LlOOO. The announcement has created somewhat of a sensation.