LATEST CABLEGRAMS.
Lord Roberts succeeds Viscount Wolseley as oommander of the forces in Ireland.
"The Times" hints that the Government will reorganise the London County Council.
Thirteen students of Princeton College, New Jersey, who were proceeding to Yellowstone National Park to study geology, are missing. It is believed that they were oaptured by Indians at Union Pass, the Wyoming redskins being enraged at the restrictions placed by the Government on their hunting. The Waitekauru Extended Goldmining Company, which proposes to carry out operations in the Thames district, has been registered in London, with a capital of £130,000.
" The Times " strongly urges that Mr Gully be re elected Speaker of the House of Commons, in order to demonstrate the nonpartisan character of the position. It is stated that the Duke of Connaught will succeed the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief,
Bcports from Shanghai state that Japan demands an additional seven and a-half millions sterling indemnity for withdrawing from the Liatong Peninsula.
" The Times " considers the result of the elections a more emphatic protest agair.st Home Rule than even in 1886, and that the Liberals ought now to renounce an impossible struggle. Oscar Wilde has been made a bankrupt at the instance of the Marquis of Queensberry, who claim 3 £600, costs of the libel action.
Japan intends to spend eight millions sterling on the construction of ironclads in England. The Frecoh religious orders have decided to submit to taxation in order to avoid a confliot with the State.
By an explosion in the t Prinz Colliery at Boehum (Westphalia) twenty persons were killed and twelve others entombed.
Coming events cast their shadows before them. In view of possible eventuations in connection with capital punishment, three prisoners have forwarded applications to Colonel Hume offering their services as haDgman should they be required. The reward they seek in return for their services is a remission of the sentence they are now serving,
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4262, 31 July 1895, Page 3
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