CABLE-NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 990, 29 January 1883, Page 3

CABLE-NEWS

HOME AND FOREIGN. [REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] .LONDON, d m. 24. The appearance of the ex-Em press Eugenic and the Princess ‘Clothilde and Mathilda in Paris, defying expulsion, is stated to have caused the resignation of the French Ministry. Spain has taken possession of and occupied the Saitori and Sulu groups. • Barret, recently convicted of agrarian murder, has becui executed at Tralee. The gasometer at the Glasgow Gasworks h»ts been biown np by dynamite. , Colonel Stewart reports that the Prophet, El Maluli, has 400,000 followers,: and occupies moat of the Soudan, but his influence, is waning. Only some 3000 men have yet joined Cetewayo, and very few leading chiefs seem disposed to acknowledge him. Gustave Done died from the effects of a sudden chill. All 'the members of the French Ministry have resigned with the exception of M. Duclere (Premier), Admiral, Janregniberry , (Minister of Marine), and General Billot (Minister of War). The latter favours drastic treatment of Bonapartist and Orleanist pretenders. (Received Jan 26, 1.30 p.m.) Jan. 25. The total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £12,400,000, an increase of £1,000,000 since last Thursday. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 44 per cent. The first of the year’s series of colonial; wool "auctions' opens on February 20th. The arrivals to date comprise 110,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered, including a quantity held over from last sales, is 270,000 bales. The quantity of new arrivals, to he included in sales, has been restricted by the importers’ committee to 250,000 bales. There are no changes to report in New Zealand securities, colonial breadstuff’s, or tallow, (Received -Jan. 26, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. News is to hand from Cannes that Mr Gladstone is ; daily improving in health, and is now no longer troubled with sleeplessness. Messrs Healy and Davitt, who were yesterday required to find bail for their good ■behaviour, or be’ imprisoned for six months, have refused to find the necessary securities, and they have consequently to undergo the imprisonment. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has left England on a visit to Cannes, south of Prance. (Received Jan. 27, 2-10 p.m.) Jan. 26. The death is announced of Herr Yon Flotow, German Musician, aged 71. For the Australian hides there is at present only a limited demand—price to lower. Terrific gales- have been experienced in the. Northern and Western districts of England, and have done an immense amount of damage both on land and sea. The havoc in some places has been most disastrous, and many shipwrecks on the Coast are reported, (Received January 29, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 28.

The refrigerating chambers of the steamship Garonne were opened to-day, and Ihe icargb of frozen meat proved to be in excellent condition. Two men have been arrested in Dublin on a charge of assassinating Field, the juryman in Hynes’s case, A witnes of the outrage has identified the two assailants. The case has been’ adjourned for a week. . PARIS, Jan; 25. The committee appointed by ; the Chamber of Deputies to consider the Bill introduced by Government dealing with the question of the Bonapartist manifestoes has decided that the measure should provide that all Bonapartists should be cashiered from the army and expelled, from the country.. The Gonernment 1 however, ' dissent from the finding of the committee. PARIS. Jan. .26. M. Duclere, ; President of the Council of Ministers, is seriously indisposed, PARIS, Jan 28. . A compromise has been effected between the Government and a committee appointed by the Chamber of Deputies, to consider the question of the expulsion from France of members of dynastic families. A clause of the Bill, providing for the cashiering of Princes: Imperialist and Royalist families from the army, has been adopted, and it has been agreed that the exercise of public functions by them shall be interdicted. The question of their expulsion is being left to the discretion of the Government. Admiral Jaure Guiberry, has, however, resigned., The debate on the Bill takes place on Monday. VIENNA, Jan. 25. M. Giers, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs,, who is now visiting Vienna, has been publicly feted and accorded a grand reception.