British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10478, 2 December 1895, Page 2

British and Foreign Telegrams

CABLE MESSAGES

By Electric Telegraph— United Press Association Copyright — Received 2 12!05 12.30 p.m.

THE WOOL SALES.

London, November 30.

At the wool sales and excellent selection was offered, and there was a brisk sale and spirited competition. Prices were very firm. The Bradford market is firmer, but business is limited owing to sellers holding. Consequently prices are dearer than in London.

DISEASED CATTLE

Six cases of pleuro-pneumonia were discovered among the cattle ex Maori King from Sydney.

THE LIBERATOR FRAUDS.

The judge in sentencing Jabez Balfour, said prisoner's wnsthe master mind which planned the fraud?, and he obtained millions by using others who were simply tools in his hands. Prisoner received his sentence without showing any outward emotion.

A BYE ELECTION.

Lord VVarkworth, Tory, has been returned unopposed for the Kensington Sonth seat in tho House of Commons, rendered vacant by Sir A. Borthwick, the sitting member, being created a peer,

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

The Anglo-French negotiations with regard to Mekong are at a deadlock, »nd it is reported that the Chinese have dislodged a French force from Kienghung, which was recently ceded.

THE PANAMA CANAL FRAUDS.

Paris, November 30. M. Pauligoux, alleged 10 be an accomplice of Marton in the Panama Canal frauds, has been arrested in Madagascar, and has been placpd under the control of the Minister for the Colonies. RECENT STORM IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, November 29. During the recent storm in Odessa 500 lives wore lost either by drowning or frozen to death. CLOSING POLITICAL CLUBS IN GERMANY. Berlin, November 30. Thu police have closed eioven social and democratic clubs, including the Central Committee, which is conducting the movement throughout Germany. DYNAMITERS IN CUBA. Madrid, November 29. A train conveying Spanish soldiers in Cuba was destroyed by rebols with dynamite. The driver and thirty soldiers were killed, and fitty others serionsly injured.