CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH & FOREIGN.

London, March 4. During incendiary raids made on tenants who paid their rents in County Limerick much property has been destroyed. London, March 6 There have been about twenty raids in Limerick, by which ricks, outhouses and other property, to the value of £2,000, wore destroyed. London, March 6th. — Father Bockx, Superior of the Order of Jesuits, U dead, aged 92 years. London, February 4.— lt is reported tbat China has ceded a group of islands, of which Chuean is the principal, to Germany. Princo Alexander, of Battonbur?, who has been enfforing from smallpox, is now out of danger. The London Chamber of Commerce , oppose the renewal of the Ocean Mail con- \ tract with Australia for seven years. The Government iutend to appoint a committee to inquire into the charges brought against the London Corporation. Sir R. D. Fowler, ex Lord Mayor, considers the charges mere matters of personal antagonism, London, March 7th, It is rumoured that Hon Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, is about to be appointed Governor of New Zealand, in sue cession to Sir William Jervois. Emperor William still unwell, and much concern felt at the state of his health. London, March Bth. The death is announced of the Rev, Henry Ward Beecher, aged 65. He had been ailing - since Saturday, when he had a severe apoplectic attack. Hanlan will forward to tho "Sportsman" articles of the match with Beach, which is to be rowed on the flepoan River for £500 a-side. Hanlan and Gaudaur have mado a match for 2nd May for a purse of 30,000 (? dollars), and the Championship of America. Both will visit Australia afterwards. London, March S. — The efforts recently made by prominent members of tho Liberal party to heal tho breach caused by the division of opinion over tho Irish question have been received with some prospect of success. Communications have passed between tho chiefs of the section* into which tho party wap split, and these f bow that a reuniting of the fragments is not far distant Washington, March 3rd.— A treaty has been concluded between the United StatO3 and Tonga, whereby the former is allowed to have a coaling station on the leland. A dun, March 3rJ. — Later advises from Mozambique state that the account of the lining of natives against tho Portuguese vras considerably overdrawn, The affair wae merely a raid, and wu3 easily repelled by the Portuguesa troops. Berlin, March B.— The bill to increase the German army during a period of seven years has been reai a first time in the Reichstag. A Press Association message says : — General Brousnrt, the Prussian Minister of War, referring to the gravity of the future, urged a unanimous vote in favour of the increase of the army for a period of seven years. Melbourne, March 7. The official agricultural statistics state that the yield of wheat in Victoria this season is eleven and a half bushels per acre, thus confirming the newspaper estimates A fresh find of gold is reported from King's Bluff, feetulpa.