LATEST CABLES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2712, 23 January 1892, Page 3

LATEST CABLES.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) (BY SUBMARINE GABLE.) (Received 10 20 a.m.) LONDON, January 22 The Awnrua will be quarantined at Spithead for one day. The crew have recovered. None of the passengers were affected. One fireman and a steward died. Obituary—Professor Adams,astronomer, in his 73rd year. Consigners fear that many of the colonial woolships will be detained by head winds and miss tho sales. The Standard urges the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the cause of influenza. At Capetown the disease is of a virulent type, and in parts deaths have increased by 800 weekly. Influenza is also increasing with severity in England. VIENNA, January 22 Archduke Ferdinand is suffering from influenza. WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 Mr Springer has introduced his Bill providing for the repeal of wool duties from January next. ST. PETERSBURG, January 22 A number of railway officials have been arrested in Moscow on a charge of assisting Nihilists to lay a mine under the railway line over which the Czar passed on his recent journey. (Received 10.30 a.m.) ANTWERP, January 22. At the wool sales, 3,500 bales from River Plate and 1,200 from Australia were among those catalogued. 1200 from River Plate sold at a decline of a farthing on the prices realised last year. Competition was fairly spirited. LONDON, January 22 The arrivals for wool auction are small, and it is expected that November prices will be maintained.