LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1902, 4 June 1892, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Cholera is raging at Trinagar, Kashmire, in India, and 999 deaths were reported in four days. There are still 1700 cases under treatment. The remains of 25 bodies have been discovered underneath a carriage factory wlaijh has been erected in Long Acre for over a centui'y. Tew of the remains were confined in coffins, and it is rumoured the spot was formerly the site of a nunnery. "The Standard" advises its readers not to aid General Booth's scheme, which it characterises as a worthless piece of sensational book making. In Arkansas Valley 100 villages are flooded, and 20,000 people are rendered destitute. The « Morning Post " considers that the errors of finance made by the colonies do not prove their incapacity, but advises them to postpone political dreams, and develop the resources of the couutry. In Seingal, in Kashmire, where cholera is prevalent, 2000 houses have been destroyed by fire, and 80,000 people are left homeless. The aggregate tonnage of vessels passing through the Suez Canal in 1891 shows an increase of 1,500,000 tons over that for the previous year. Tour dynamite bombs with fuses attached have been found under the Great Eastern railway line in London. The Berliner TagebJatt, referring to the British hostility to slavery, asserts thut it is the cloak of that country's ascendancy. The prospectus of Pearls Soap Company, with a capital of LBlO.OOO and a working capital of Ll 50,000, has been issued. Archibald Forbes has an article in the "New Review" defending kanaka tratfjc in Queensland. The labourers imported, he says, ought to be rigidly confined to tvopica and semi-tropical agriculture. The House of Commons, by a majority of 14, declined to adjourn to enable members to witness the running of the Derby. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs declares that he will hold England responsible for the alleged cruelties' to ' Catholics in Uganda. Mr Grover Cleveland claims to have secured a two-thirds majority which is essential to his nomination for the Presidentship. In the course of his speech to the London Liberal Union, Mr Gladstone said the few fools and rogues in Ulster who would resist the establishment of an Irish Parliament would be easily suppressed. The Right Hon. E. Heaneage, M.P. for Great Grimsby, addressing the meeting said there was a, general reaction in favour of Liberal Unionism, which promised to be the greatest electoral surprise of the century. The Liberal whips in circulars to members of the party and their supporters, anticipate that the dissolution of the Imperial Parliament will take place towards the end of June.