CABLE NEWS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6644, 20 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

ENGLISH AND FOItEIGN.

(By Electric Telograph— Copyright.) (Per Unite! Press Association.) Received October 19, 11.15 p.m.

ANOTHER PLOT TO MURDER THE

CZAR. St. Phtebsbuei}, October 18.— A plot to assassinate tho Czar has been discovered, and a Nihilist, supposed to bo implicated in the conspiracy, having been detected making dynamite bombs at Moscow, ha 3 been arrested.

THE WAR OF THE DOCTORS. Bkblin, October 18.— Drs Virchow and Waldoyer contradict Sir Morell Mackonzie's Btatomonts with reference toinal-

practices in the late Emperor Frederick's throat, and declare that the autopsy revealed no traces of such blundering as that ascribed by Sir Morell to Dr Bcrgmonn's operations.

EMPEROR WILLIAM' 3 TOUR. Emperor William returns to this city today, and will next visit Madrid and Lisbon' CRIMINALS FOR THE COLONIES. London, October 19.— The report of tho dischargod prisoners' mission states that 500 discharged prisonors havo been sent to tho colonies during the year. Received October 20, 1 a.m. GOVERNORSHIP OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Tho Right Hon. R. Plunkett has declined the Governorship of South Australia.

EMPEROR FREDERICK'S DIARY.

Count Hatyfcldt Wildernborg, tlio German Ambassador, has mado a formal cqniplaint to Lord Salisbury in referenco to the publication of tho yoe similes of portions of the lato Emperor Frederick's diary. The Premier has repudiated any complicity in tho matter by himself or by any member of the Royal Family, and has promised to institute inquiries as to how parts of the late Emperor's diary came into the possession of tho publishers.

PRINCE ALEXANDER'S MARRIAGE.

It is roportcd that Princo Alexander of Battonburg will shortly bo married to Princess Victoria, second daughter of the lato Emperor Frederick, and that the ceromony will bo performed at Windsor. BANK OF ENGLAND. Tlio weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the total resorvc in notes and bullion at £11,600,000, and the proportion of reservo to liabilities 36 por cent, boing an increase of £507,000 on the total reserve, and an increase of 1} per cont in proportion of reserve to liabilities.

THE MURDER OF MAJOR BAR' TELLOT.

Tho ollicial report of the murder of Major Bartcllot has been recoivcd by tho Homo j authorities. It states thut Major Bjrtellot was attempting lo efcop the incessant drumming carried on by somo mon belonging to his partj', whon ono of them suddenly turned on him und shot him dead. ENGLAND'S LITTLE WARS. Calcutta, Octobor 18— The latest intelligence to hand rospecting tho operations of tho British forco despatched to tho northern frontier of tho Punjaub, for tho purposo of punishing the Hazara tribes for the murder of Colonel Battyo and Captain Urmston, states that tho Akozais having disregarded Gonoral McQuoon's ultimatum of tho 13th instant, their crops and villages havo been destroyed by tho column under General McQueen. INDIAN POLITICS. The Fraudulent Merchandise Marks Bill has been introduced in the Indian Council. Received October 20, 1.30 p.m. LAUNCHING OF AN IRONCLAD. Rome, Octobor 19— Emporor William,

of Germany, and King Humbert wero presont at tho launching to-day of an ironclad at Cascllamare, a city of Southorn Italy.