CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9498, 29 November 1899, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(Press Association—Copyright.) PLOT AGAINST THE SULTAN. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27. Important arrests have been made here in connection with a plot to assassinate the Sultan at Friday's Salar manic ceremony, and four bombs were seized. THE ALLUVIAL TROUBLE. KALGOORLIE, Noy. 28. At a monster meeting, including the Mayor and member for the district, in support of the alluvia-lists, it was resolved that if the Government refused to deal justly with the diggers., to take immediate aotion to shake off the intolerable tyranny inflicted on the goldfields residents by the We& Australian Parliament. LORD RANFURLY. ADELAIDE, Nov.. 28. Lord Ranfurly has arrived from a visit to his Mildura estate, and is tho guest of Lord Tenny&m. A CONJURER SHOT. SYDNEY, Nov. 27. Professor Dante, the well-known conjurer, was accidentally shot by a companion while shooting near Dubbo. The wound is in the groin, and the professor's case is considered hopeless. LORD BRASSEY. MELBOURNE, Nov. 27. Lord Brassey leaves the colony finally on January 13.

INTENSE HEAT. SYDNEY, November 28. Intense heat has been experienced in New South Wales, the thermometer showing over one hundred in'the shade in the city, ATTEMPT TO WREOK A TRAIN. MELBOURNE Nov. 28. An attempt was made to wreck a train at South Yarra by placing a bar of iron on the rails. SMALL POX. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. There is ' another case of small-pox on the Ninevob. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. BRISBANE, Nov. 28. Mr. Dawson is experiencing difficulty in forming a Ministry, and has asked for time. ADELAIDE, Nov. 28. Mr Burgoyne moved the adjourns ment of the Houso, to bo taken as a .est of the Btrength of the parties Mr Kingston's Ministry, aftor 6J- years of office, was defeated by one vote, three members of tho Labor party voting with the Opposition. Mr Kingston may seek a dissolution on the ground that the members will be opposing the national will in legard to the Houselio'd Suffrage Bill. Mr Burgoyne, who is over 70 years of age, is likely to ask the Governor to summon Mr Solomons,