LATE CABLES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 5

LATE CABLES.

Mexico, June 26. Heavy floods are reported in the country districts, and it is stated that 1,500 persons have been drowned.

St. Peteksburg, June 26. Genekal GouitKo predicts a two years' peace.

Vienna, June 27. The Austrian journals are expressing a hope that Russia may join the peace league. The Delegations have passed the war credits.

iSELiLix, June 26. Both the French and Russian Press consider the Emperor William's speech at the opening of the Reichstag augurs the maintenance of peace in Europe.

Paris, June 27. The leading French journals, while admitting the pacific character of the Emperor's speech, draw attention to the silence in the speech regarding the relations between France and Germany.

London, June 26. In speaking to his motion of censure, Mr John Morley said that seventeen members of the House of Commons had been imprisoned under the present Government administration in Ireland, and that at the present time there were forty political offenders confined in a single gaol. He challenged the justice, expediency, or wisdom of the course adopted by the Government in dealing with affairs in Ireland, and also the statements that their Irish policy had been successful. He charged the authorities with provoking outrages by the manner in which they treated offences committed under the Plan of Campaign, which he asserted had done no substantial injustice. The Hon. J. G. Goschen replied that when Mr Gladstone resigned the Premiership there was little respect paid to the law by the Irish, and their love for England was declining. Mr Dillon, he said, was an agrarian and not a political prisoner. The true reason of the Opposition being indignant at the policy of the Government was, he thought, because the Plan of Campaign had been defeated. On the motion of Mr Wm. OBrien, the debate was adjourned. Mr Morley's amendment was defeated by a majority of 93, the figures being — for, 273 ; against, 366.

Berlin, June 26. In his speech to the Reichstag yester day, the Emperor William said he had resolved to pursue the path by which his grandsire had secured the confidence of his allies, the love of his people, and the goodwill of those abroad. His love for the army and his relations towards it would never induce him to endanger the peace unless forced by an attempt on the Empire or her allies. The Austrian alliance was a legacy in German history, and was sanctioned by public opinion. Similar relations were needed to bind them to Italy.

Durban, June 25. Severe fighting has taken place between the followers of the Zulu chiefs, | Dinizulu and Usibepn. The latter were defeated and Dinizulu subsequently attacked a British police post i on the Zulu frontier.

[ Durban, June 26. A general insurrection in Zululand is considered to be inevitable.

June 26. Charles Markham, who attempted to murder his wife, Laura Markham, at South Richmond, on April 27th, by | s'.'io i. L ing her with a revolver, was tried 1 mm}- The jury returned a verdict -i -amity," with a recommendation to mciv.; The Judge passed sentence of death.

London, June 26 Vi&couflt Lymington has given notice of his intention to introduce a Bill providing for the regulation of the sale of foreign The Peninsula i and Oriental , Com pany have ordered /jir steamers to be* built on the Clyde. *

"" '^den, June 26. The fire on board the steamer Essex has been subdued.

Jerusalem, June 25. Herr Schiuk, a German archisologist, lias been cxploriugPalestine, and osjaims to have discovered the true site o^ the Pool of Bethesda.

1 Sydney, this day. 1 11 aim lan has challenged Kemp, the\ champion sculler of the world, to row' him, within three months' time, for £500 and the championship.

LotfDOK, June 27, Lokd Wolseley has been under examination by the Army Estimates Committee. In liis evidence he said there was by half too many generals in the British army, and the majj ity were utterly incompetent to perform the duties required of them.

Great Britain's "drink bill" for 1887 s published and amounts to £125,000,000. Of this £36,000,000 was spent for spirits, £75,000,000 for beer, £12,500,009 for wine, and £1,500,000 for cider and native wines. A significant sijjn of French, decadence* Th'eie were 60,636 births in Paris last year. There were 57,092 deaths during the same period, of which more than 10,000 were due to pulmonary diseases. Since the German armies overran soil it has been fortified at every point, at the enoimous cost of a hundred and' fifty million pounds sterling, and only a/few weeks ago an additional million and a half was voted to strengthen the fortifications on the couat.