CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 108, 27 June 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

DIARIES OF THE LATE GENERAL GORDON. London, Jund 24. General Gordon's diauos have been published, [mid have caused an immense sensation. In them he compares himsell to Una the Hittite, whom King David ordered to he phioed in the foremost positiun in the battle, subsequently am* uig the jinny to desert .him, and thu.s causing his death.

KifiW GUINEA AND GEHMANY. Germany annexes all the Jyland^ off the coast of Now Guinea, butwuen' the Equator 1 and the eighth degree south latitude, and between the one hundred u*d lorty-

first and the one hundred, and iifty-fourth decree of! longitude. The Ritfht Hon. Sir William Hart Dyko, M.P., "has boen appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. Sir Henry Dminmond Wolff replaces Sir Evelyn B iring aa British CoasulQenenil in E^yut. A Preaf* Association messajafe aays^:— It h c^miTi-^'l nrnhuhlo tlmt M.r William J. Harris, M P. for Pools, will dj Undor-Seci\»t«j-y for India, and Lord Dimiuven Under-Sdcrotury £oi- the Oolonies in tho now Ministry. The iinMni)(3i-8 oC the now Ministry woro HW-M'n in ypslcrduy. Tho Ri^lit Hon. Robt. Burke has beon appointed Uudor-Sjurdtary of Foreign Affairs.

ANNEXATION OF Hi WATT. San FrancisCu, June 24. An Envoy from King Kulakua. of! the Sandwich Island*, has arrived horg. It is bolieved that the object of tho visit is to negotiate tha annexation of Ha.vaii by the United States.

DR WALSUE THE NEW ARCIIBISUOP 01? DUBLTN. Sydney, Juno 24. Tho Very Roy. Dr \Vulsho, Bishop of Kihl.tre, Im-i been appointed Archbishop of Dublin, in success to the lute Cardinal MuCibe.