LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1888, 16 April 1892, Page 4

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

A disastrous fire has occurred at Tokia, Japan.

A loan of eleven and a-quarter millions at 4£ per cent, has been issued in Russia for the purpose of railway extension.

The Madras Government deny that they could have done more than they did to avoid the heavy mortality in the Presidency during the famine. The origin of 40,000 cases of cholera was traced to impure water.

The reading of the Sultan's firman will take place at Cairo on Thursday. The allied Powers supported the action taken by the Marquis of Salisbury as against the trickery of the Porte in trying to sever the Sinai peninsula from Egypt.

A dynamite bomb has been discovered at the residence of Judge Pefegenates at Ohartres, France.

An accomplice of Ravachal, the Anarchist leader, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

The trial of the Paris Anarchists is being hurried on in order that judgment can be delivered before the May celebrations can be arranged by the Anarchists.

During service in a crowded church in Bilbao, Spain, a cripple saw a dynamite bomb. He ordered a servant to bring it to him, when he cut th*> lighted fuse, and so prevented an explosiou taking place. A panic, however, resulted among the csngregatiou.

At a meeting of Anarchists in Hyde Park the Walsall arrests Were declared to to be a plot on the part of the police, and resolutions protesting against the sentences were carried.

The codlin moth has ruined the shipments of New Zealand apples lately received in London. One hundred boxes only fetched 3d each.

Mr Perceval, Agent-General, has wired to Lord Glasgow at Malta asking him whether he would be willing to make the journey from Sydney to Wellington in the Hinemoa.

Many Englishmen in Chili are emigrating to California, as they consider that under the present Administration life and property are not safe in the couutry. Heavy floods have occurred in Alabama. Twentyvpersons have been drowned and 500 families been rendered destitute. Immense damage has also been done to property.

The Ulster clergy are preparing to conduct a crusade in ngland and Scotland against Home Rule for Ireland.

General Booth has not yet decided on the localities for the establishment of his " over-the-sea " colonies.

By the fire at Tokia 6,000 houses were destroyed and fifty people lost their lives. The Budget speech was delivered by Mr Goschen to the smallest house known for the past twenty years. He announced that the amount required to restore lightweighted sovereigns hadnot been exceeded. The imports of tobacco, tea, and dried fruits had increased, while alcohol had decreased. The estimates of expenditure for the last three years had aggregated £244.000,000. while the actual difference in the amount expended had only been £137,000.

It is expected Mrs Osborne, imprisoned for perjury in connection with the Spink pearl robbery case, will be released a fortnight before her accouchement.

Mr Janoea Munro, the new Agentgeneral of Victoria, in an interview with a representative of the " Daily Chronicle," said the colony was in a state of financial collapse, but he hoped that within 18 months the present difficulty would be pvercome. He believed money would shortly be a drug in Melbourne. It was difficult to conceive how strongly organised the Labor party would be formed in parliament.

Bombs have been found on the elevated railway in JS ew York. A gang of Anarchist incendaries have been discovered in Brooklyn.

The owners of the cotton mills at Heywood, in Lancashire have given notice to 2500 of their employes. They have been compelled to take this step because of the s*nke at the S'aley Bridge Oil Mills. The Government have refused to compensate Hood, who was dismissed from the Cambrian Company folr giving evidence before a parliamentary committee.