CABLEGRAMS.
London, November 21. On Sunday last Trafalgar Square was guarded by a force of 1,500 special constables. The authorities have withdrawn the charge preferred against Mr William. Saunders, ex-member of Parliament for Hull, for addressing a meeting afc Trafalgar Square, and aacused was accordingly discharged. The prosecution was abandoned on accountof the order issued by Sir H. Warren, forbidding the meetings, being merely a formal notice and not a legal proclamation. The attempt to compel William OBrien, M.P., to wear prison garb has again been baffled by the fact of his having had a suit of clothes conveyed surreptitiously to him in gaol. The 140 persons who lost their lives on the steamboat Scholten, which came into collision with another in the English Channel, were mostly of German nationality,
London, November 21. Two Americans, named Callan and Haikins, were charged at the Bowstreet Police Court to-day with having dyn.'imito in their possession, and with plotting to carry out explosions. Both accused were remanded.
3STj;\v Yoiik, November 21. Bahnum's well-known menagerie was destroyed by lire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, yesterday. Three elephants and all the lions, tiger?, and other quadrupeds connected with the show were burned to death. Thirty elephants, terrified by the conflagration, stampeded through the streets of the town, but were ultimately captured.
London, November 20. The French Government were de~ fcated by 3:^B to 242. The majority was composed almost equally of Conservatives and those holding extreme Republican opinions. Seveial of the graver charges of corluption which weie prefened against I\l. JDaniel Wilson have proved to bo false. In the avent of M. Grevy resigning the Presidency of France, the following are likely to become candidates for the position : M. Jules Ferry, M. de Freycinel, M.Carnot, and General Saus&icr.
London, November 17. Telegrams received at Brussels from the Congo state that owing to treachery on the part of Tippo Tib and the opposition of unfriendly Arabs, it has been found impossible to send leinf 01 cements up the Congo. The Aiabs at Stanley Palls are armed with Geimaniiiles and occupy strongly entrenched positions. Fighting has already taken place with the rear guard under Major Barltellot, who accompanied the Stanley expedition, and who was left with a force of 100 men in the camp at Nambunga, at the foot of the Aruv/ini Eapids. , Stanley, with the main expedition, is consequently completely isolated.
London, November 22. A plebiscite is being taken of the miners of Great Britain upon a proposal to restrict the output of coal, for the purpose of raising its price also* the rate of wages.
London, November 20. The demonstration by the Radicai" Clubs of London took place in Hyde Park to-day, the proceedings passing off in .1 quiet and orderly manner. Resolutions cxpresging sympathy with "W. O'Biien in his imprisonment, and censuring the Government were unanimously adopted by the meeting.
Bkklin, November 18. A discharge has set in from the larynx of the Crown Prince of Ger many, indicating that the growth is a soft cancer of the worst description.
Sydney, November 19. j Advices from New Guinea report that the expedition to the highlands of .British New Guinea, under the direction of H. 0. Forbes, has reached the foot of Mount Owen Stanley, the loftiest mountain of the range. Mr Forbes attendants deserted him on arrival at the mountain, owing to their superstitious dread of proceeding in the ascent, also their fear of hostile natives. On returning to the main camp, the explorers found it had been looted during their absence.
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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 4
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