LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1870, 13 February 1892, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

The Empress of Germany is suffering from influenza.

There is a likelihood of the stoppage of butter shipments from Victoria, as "'producers are dissatisfied at the manner in which their produce is placed on the English market.

The Royal Hotel in New York has been destroyed by fire. One hundred of the guests and employes lost their lives, while a number of others who attempted to escape by jumping from the windows were killed.

The rioters at Xeres, Spain, who were condemned to death, Avill be garrotted on Wednesday. Workmen's societies intend to suspend work that day. There is a feeling of disquietude among the Russian Poles owing to the favourable treatment of Germans by the Russian police.

Riots have been caused in Russia through food which had been adulterated being sent to the famine-stricken districts. The police who connived at the fraud are beinodismissed. °

Mr J. C. Blame, in a letter, declines to be nominated for the Presidency of the United States.

Count de Launey, Italian Ambassador to Germany, has died of influenza. The population of the whole of India, as shovn by the late census, is 288,000,000. Count Limburg Stirum has been dismissed fiom the German service for publicly criticising the commercial treaties entered into with other countries.

Tne Hon. Mr Chamberlain has been elected leader of the Unionists, in place of Lord Hartington.

The public have applied for a laro-e portion o£ the Western Australian loan. The general opinion in the city is that the difficulty of obtaining a full subscription ought to be a warning to other colonies. The return of General Booth will be celebrated by two dinners in London, attended by 5000 of his followers, and by one in Birmingham,

The elections in the Argentine have not been conducted without bloodshed. Twenty persons were killed or wounded during some election riots.

It is alleged that the Pope-is dividing England into two provinces for ecclesiastical purposes.

Mr Redmond insists that one condition of the reunion' of the Irish party shall be the expulsion of Mr Healy. It is alleged th.at M/Schnadhorst, organiser of the Liberal party, estimates their majority at the general election, including the majority of the Irish party, will be 30. Mr Curzon, Political Secretary for India, announced that the Government of India intended to take measures to curtail the the opium traffic.

Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease still exist in the outskirts of London.

The Czar has sent decorations to the workmen at St. Etienne, in France, who denounced two Englishmen who were convicted of trying secretly to obtain designs of the new Russian rifle.

Sixty thousand people attened the late Rev. Mr Spurgeon's funeral service at the Tabevnaole.

We have been advised by cablegram that in the Sydney grain market milling wheat brings 4s 9d to ss, and the best oats from 2s 4d to 2s Bd. In the Melbourne grain market wheat is firm at 4s to 4s 4d, and oats quiet, prices remaining unaltered. In the Adelaide grain market, wheat is quoted at 4s 3d to 4s 4d, and New Zealand oats (in bond) 2s 4d, duty paid 3s 3d. * *

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