ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4539, 15 May 1889, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Per Electric Telkoraph — Copyright,) (Per Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m., May 14th.) THEFT OF SPECIE. London, May 13. On the arrival of the Orient Company's S.S. Iberia, it was discovered that 5000 sovereigns shipped at Sydney had been stolen. It is believed that the theft was effected during the steamer's stay at Melbourne. THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN. The Bishop of Lincoln's defence fund amounts to £20,000. He has published a letter thanking members of the Church of England in Australia and New Zealand for letters of sympathy received from there. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, becomes trustee for the New Zealand Midland RailwayCompany's debentures. ARREST OF GAMBLERS. On Sunday morning a body of fifty police made a raid upon a fashionable baccarat club in Park Place and took the inmatos by surprise. Fifty were arrested, including Lorda Dudley, Lnrgao, and Paulet, Messrs Merry and Benzon (the Jubilee pluuger. ) Eighteen thousand pounds in hard cash was also seized. The same morning another raid was made on the Adelphi Club and forty-seven gamblers arrested. IRISH AFFAIRS. The statement that the Marquis of Ormonde is to succeed the Marquis of Londonderry as Viceroy of Ireland is denied. SHIPPING. Arrived — Barque Triton from Wellington, Feb 10th ; barque Lurline, from L3'tte!ton, Feb. 17th ; barquo Oacnr from Auckland, Feb. 10th ; barque Arundel from Bluff Harbour, Jan. 27th ; ship Rangitiki from Timaru, Feb. Ist ; ship Himalaya from Oamaru, Jan. 29th ; ship Loweswater from Timaru, Feb. 3rd. PARIS EXHIBITION. Paris, May 13. Visitors to the exhibition number 100,000 daily. THE PANAMA CANAL. The Government propose to ask the Chamber of Deputies to authorise the ißsno of bonds to the amount of £1,500,000, to proceed with the Panama Canal works, pending the formation of a new company. SERVIA. Belqiude, May 13. Ex-queen Natalie has abandoned her contemplated visit to her son King Alexander of Sorvia for the present, on condition that ex-King Milan also absents himself from Sorvia. KHARTOUM, Caiko, May 13. The rumoured capturo of Khartoum by El Sonouesi's lieutenant towards the end of laet month has boon ascertained to be false. RUSSIA. St. Peteksbukci, May 13. Senator Durnovo will succeed the lato Count Tolstoi us Russian Minister of tho Interior. ROYAL VISIT. The Czar visits tho Emperor William of Germany at Kiel in August next. Rome, May 13. King Hmnhert will pay a. visit to Berlin, leaving hero on tho 21st inst. Ho will remain in 13orlin six days. (lieemved 12.45 p.m., May Utli.) BODY SNATCHING. CnicAGo, May 13. It is reportod that a box discovered nt Chicago city contained a corpse. A man named Gill who convoyed it to the cemetery has been arrested, and lie confesses that another person calling himsolf a doctor placoi n body in tho box and afterwards oscapod. Tho corpse has not boon found, though a close search has boon made for it. (Srix'iAL to rni Press Association.) (Koaoivod 1 p.m.. May 14th.) ARREST OF GAMBLERS. London, May 13. Tho gamblers arrested in Park Placo wero bailed out, but those captured nt the Ado'phi Club wero not. A (JUEER SERENADE. Mosul's O'Brien aud Harrington, dressed in thuir ptisou clothes, wero oeronaded by a number of admirer*.

COLLIERY STRIKE. Berlin, May 13. Forty-two colliers at Essen have struck. THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. Constantinople, May 13. Tho Porto ia enquiring into the alleged atrocities in Armenia. The Turkish authorities asßert that they have been greatly exaggerated.