CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1349, 30 August 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(From ova own Correspondent.) LONDON, August 97• At the wool sales to-day 1 i.QOO bales were catalogued. No improvement in piices has been experienced. The first portion of the Cargo of frozen mutton brought by the steam hip lonic, from Lyttelton, vVas placed cn the market to-day. The meat was of prime quality, and realised from 7d to 8d per lb. Latest intelligence from Madagascar reports that Queen Kanovalsmaujaka is dead, but the statement requires confirmation. VIENNA, August 27. A serious agitation against the Magyars has broken out in the Croatian, a district of Southern Austria. A state of siege has been declared, and troops have been despatched to the scene of the disturbance, Reports are to hand of the continuance of ant! Jewish rioting in Western Hungary. The troops have been called out, and several conflicts with the rioters have taken place, in which numbers on both sides have been killed and wounded. t PARIS, August 27. The “Temps” in its issue of to-day publishes a telegram from a correspondent in Tonquin, announcing that the King of Annam has submitted to the French forces, aud has offered the services of his troops in the event of further military operations in Tonquin being necessary. The King has also accepted the terms offered by the French commission, which proceeded to Hue to negotiate for a cessation of hostilities, and has agreed to pay the war idemnity demanded. The French troops are meanwhile holding the forts which they recently captured, and which command the city, as security for payment of the indemnity. The provisions of the compact arrived at also recognise the French claim to a protectorate over the country, and confirms the same. Much ill-feeling has of late been manifested between the natives of Besagon, a town in Eastern France, and the Italian wo'kmen resident there. Tha discord culminated to-day in a riot, in which large numbers of workmen took pirt. The disturbance was, however, suppressed by the police. BATAVIA, August 27. A volcanic eruption has brokan out on the Island of Cractoa, in the Straits of Sunda. L'he outburst is terrific, and plainly visible from this town News to hand from Anjer and Serang, on the Java coast, state that a serious influx of the sea has been experienced, and much damage has been caused in both places,