LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1887, 13 April 1892, Page 4

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

The Chamber of Deputies fcas voted three and a quarter million francs for the representation of the nation at the Chicago Exhibition. Oouut CUprivi is visiting Carlsbad for the sake of\the medicinal springs. He is regarded as preparing to resign the Chancellorship at no distant date, owing to a dispute with Herr Boattinger, Secretary of State for the Interior. Two attempts have been made to blow up a building at Puebls Nueva with dynamite, but no harm was done. A large number of Anarchists have been arrested in Berlin.

Emm P*»ha requests Germany to regard Wadelai as being outside of the British sphere, aud to allow him to dispose of the country.

At the wool sales foreigners are purchasing heavily aud prices are fully sustained.

Owing to the hot weather the butter market has collapsed. Danish has fallen 10a,and Victorian, best factory has dropped to 96s from 98s per cwt, The value of the imports for the United Kingdom last month showed an increase of L 140.000, while the exports decreased L 200.000.

Sir James Fergusson, referring to the rapid passage made by the Messageries Maritimoa steamer Polynesian from Adelaide to Marseilles, said it was very undesirable to sacrifice the regularity of the mail service in order to occasionally secure 8 quicker transit. A loan for LIOO.OOO at 4 per cent, placed on the market by the British West Indian Government averaged LlO2 3s 9d, and was subscribed twice over. K» Colonel Humbert states that the position of the French troops in Dahomey is desperate, and they are unable either to retreat or advance.

A dressmaker who waa acquainted with Deeming(whomshe knew as Lawson)states that she walked with him on the night one of the Whitechapel murders was committed. She left him early, but met him as:ain latter in the evening. He then appeared to be very agitated, aud conversed about the murder in an excited manner, showing an intimate knowledge of the way in which the body was nautili' ated. He declared it was impossible that he personally could be guilty of the crime, notwithstanding the wonderful knowledge he possessed of all the details of the affair.

Outrages are being committed in County Gal way ; and on Lord Clanricarde's estate, Loughrea, fifty sheep have been found honahed.

Quotations for New Zealand frozen mutton are unchanged. New Zealand hemp is dull, and at auctions none were sold.

While the steamer Sudelop was nearlng one of the wharves on the Thames, the passengers, of whom there were a large number, crowded on ouo aide, causing the vessel to capsize. Fifty of those on board were drowned.

in his firman to the Khedive the Sultan of Turkey claims the Sinai Peninsula. A large meeting was held in London of influential bankers and merchants, and it was decided to form a brauch of the Bimetallic League. It farther resolved to urge the scheme on the Government and to cooperate with them in establishing an international agreement for an unrestricted gold and silvei^oinage. Polish Anarcifcsts killed the Bishop of PrDmusci. The murderers were pursued, •uid two of them shot <*cad, the other two committed suicide.

Several incendiary fires which have occurred in Vienna of late have been proved to bo the work of Anarchists.

The German Government has refused to recognise Emm Pasha's claims to Wadelai. The Sultan of Turkey has abandoned irb claims to the possession of the Sinai Peninsula,owinG: to the firmness displayed by LordSalisburyand the Khedive of Egypt in dealing with his request. France and Russia are believed to have inspired the Sultan to oppose the Khedive's derrand that he should be made acquainted with the contents of the firman before it was read to the public. The Malay rebels have murdered Stewart and Harris, two officers of the Pahang Exploring Company. Both men came from Australia.

The Commandant of the Canadian Militia, in his report to Parliament, says the organisation of the force is deplorable, but the personnel of the varions corps is good. The arms used by the men are of the abrolete type, and the Dominion is actually without a single heavy gun of the modern class. He also declares that a large portion of the armaments provided by England is useless.

Mr Patrick Egan, of Chilian fame, was offered the post of United States Minister in France and also in China, but he declined both offers.

The Democrats, fearing that the success of the Republican party in Rhode Island will involve the capture of the New England states, are likely to agree to a revision of Senator Bland's Silver Bill, in order to conciliate farmers in the Western States.

The fact of President Harrison having left Washington is looked upon as an indication that the Behring Sea difficulty has been settled.

"The Commonwealth," a newspaper published by the Anarchists, incites to the mnrder of Mr H. Matthews (Home Secretary), Mr Justice Hawkins, and Inspector Melville for the part they took in connection with the arrest and punishment of the Walsall Anarchists.

Mr Brodie Hoare's circular states that daring the last few nights of the wool sales the fall iv prices which characterised the opening of the series has been entirely obliterated. February prices are now being realised, and there was a farther advance of 5 per cent, on Friday night. The Oxford and Cambridge Universities' annual boat race took place on Saturday, and resulted in a win for Oxford by one and a half lengths. Oxford has now won 26 and Cambridge 22 races, the contest in 1877 being a dead heat.

Owing to over-work during his tour through the States M. Padetewski, the eminent pianisti, has been attacked by muscular paralysis, and the doctors whom he consulted in New York and London have forbidden him to resume work before October. In consequence of this be is compelled to postpone his proposed Australian and New Zealand tour.

Tho prospectus of the Blackball Coal Company, Greymonth, New Zealand, with a capital of L 60,000, has been issued. Mr J. Munro, the new Agent-general ( i Victoria, has arrived in London. The proposal to insert a compulsory (him i Mr Chaplin's Small Holdings J il was rejected by a majority of 42. Lord Glasgow, the new Governor of New Zealand, has sailed for the colonies. His lordship's party numberß 40.