LATE CABLEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2484, 1 April 1893, Page 3

LATE CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 2'.). In the House of Commons to-day, while the Estimates were under discussion, the members of the Opposition offered continued obstruction, whereupon Mr Gladstone moved that the closure be applied, and the motion was carried by a majority of 119. The will of the late Sir Andrew Walker, a brewer, has been proved &t nearly £3,000,000. The New Zealand Colonising Company is being formed to work estates valued at £3,000,000. The Westport-Wallsend Coal Company have resolved upon voluntary liquidation. Many shareholders! favor the recoustuction of the company.. The Tongariro and Ma/nari are taking a consignment of fresh fish to Dunedin and Auckland. Supplies of frozen meat are much the same as usual. The greatest demand is for Canterbury mutton, Jabez S. Balfour, who was brought back from Mexigo on charges of fraud in connection with his bankrupt companies, has succeeded in levanting again, and is now at Monte Video in South America. He is believed to have taken at least £15,000 in bank notes with him. Cape Colony has issued a loan of half a million for the purpose of converting 5 per cents, into 3J per cents, at par. A special meeting of the Tabernacle congregalion accepted the Rev. James Spurgeon's resignation as from the end of Jnne,andinvitedthollev. Thos. Spurgeivi to preach for a year from July 30 „,? > "? view to his taking the „ ' " pastorate. permanent The D- • March 29. tllr ~._- rtP *."sH. Peace Society presented ,' c '.'iig with a petition bearing 35,000 ,igii!iMirc3, in favor of arbitration being resorted to in the event of a threatened outbreak of war—the principal Powers acting as arbitrators—and urging the reduction of the military strength of all countries. The King replied that there were great difficulties in the way of such a proposal, and a movement in the direction indicated must be initiated by a leading Power. Rio de Janeiro, March 29. The refugees at Port Nationals surprised 100 insurgents at Base, in the Rio Grande province, and massacred the whole band. Calcutta, March 29. The Austrian Archduke has sailed for China, whence he proceeds to the Australian colonies. New York, March 2 C J. The fight between Government troops and the insurgents lasted two hours. The bodies of the slain were piled in heaps and burned. The insurgents are now marching on Tegucigalpa. Tha insurgents defeated the Loyalists, and General Don Leira, the President, has resigned. Stdnev, March 30. Tliß points reserved at the trial of the M'akins for infanticide were heard by the Full Court of Appeal and dismissed. The prisoners were formally sentenced to death.