CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 1

CABLEGRAMS.

London, January 17. "JiORD Charles Beresford, First Lord rof the Admiralty, is about to resign •that office because of his scheme of reorganisation of the naval service. The Rev. 0. H. Spurgeon declines reconciliation with the Baptist Union. The Rev. Mordaunt Lowther of the Earl of Lousdale) was summoned for criminal assault, but did not appear when called on. He was subsequently discovered in his bedroom with his brains blown own. Jl number of American wool growers :and manufacturers are petitioning Congiess to increase the duties on foreign wool and woollen goods.

London, January 18. The last ;£ 25,000* instalment of the -City of Auckland loan of has »been successfully floated, the average being ;£lOl 15s lOd. The total -amount offered was The • Joan was floated through the National ißank of New Zealand.

London, January 17. Sir Henry Holland replying to the women's petition to the Queen for the of the Contagious Diseases Acts, .said that the Imperial Government are taking steps to procure the repeal of these ordinances in the colonies where ?the Crown can constitutionally interiere. . The corner in copper continues. The ■copper syndicate are coercing the mines <unwilling to join them. ' Five days' darkness has been experienced in Birmingham, and much excitement was caused, as it was thought that the world had come to an end. ;'Some of the local- preachers had prophesied that the world would end on *he Uth. • The dense fog which has been experienced during the past few days is now lifting, in the Midlauds, where it is.as black ..as v nighfc t^- Man}' casualties liave occurred. The mail companies have made a voluntary reduction in the charges for parcel post to 3d per lb, and propose, in' the future, to reduce the price to 2d, providing that Mr Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, will concede to the public an equivalent reduction. As soon as the time-table has been arranged the new contract will be signed forthwith.

Philadelphia, January 11. A terrible railway disaster occurred Dear Wyoming, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, yesterday. A passenger train, crowded with passengers, was run into by a goods train. The carriages of the former were smashed to pieces, and the wreckage was fired by the stoves used for warming the compartments. Most appalling scenes were witnessed. A great many, being unable to extricate themselves from the wreckage, were burned to death. Nearly all of those who escaped death have received serious injuries. The scene was so horrible that the conductor of the train lost his reason. Numbers of those who did get free •were frozen to death, the weather being bitterly cold at the time.

Berlin, January 17. A Draconian law against the Socialists has been submitted to the Reichstag. Berlin, January 13. ' It is reported here that the police have discovered a German Socialist plot to murder the Crown Prince, but no details have transpired. The official announcement concerning the health of the Crown Prince states that the irritation connected •with the growth in the throat is reappearing. The Emperor Wilhelm has completely recovered from his recent indisposition. The Prussian Landtag was opened to-day. The Emperor's speech anticipated that the financial equipoise would be - upheld, unless something unforseen happened. The | depression on the Bourse was adversely -commented upon.

Paris, January 12. The offence for which Judge Vignean, who. heard the charges against M. Wilson, was dismissed from office, was for inviting witnesses for the prosecution to dine with him. i

New York, January 17. A terrible cyclone swept over the Western States of America, killing 100 oersons. . ;

St. Petersburg, January 17. It is reported that, ;one hundredweight 1 of dynamite and /a number of bombs have been seized- at a railway station in the suburbs of, St. Petersburg.' ./'- r r '-. '[',- . „\ ,;/„,•; Typhoid, fever h?s -broken out in the armjjr in PdlfncL " j&fty paen have been frozen to death; owing to the Inlehse, cold prevailing. ; " ' j " >f ' ! . ' ; ' *