CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

London, November 4. The football match between the Maori team and the Northumberland Club resulted in a draw — each side scoring a goal. Cardinal Newman is now in a fair way to recovery. Earl Granville slates that the Sugar Bountits Convention is ir*ught with mischief, and is a dangerous encroachment upon the principles and practice of free trade, Sir Julius Vogol's. novei will be published in February next. The Scottish Libeial Associations have declf.reci in favoui of Home Rule for Scotland.

London, November 5. Mr Gladstone, while proceeding to Birmingham lo take patt in a Liberal Home Rule demonstration, met with an ovation at allthe lailway stations en route. On his arrival in this city be i.asi '.as accorded an enthusiastic welcome, the streets being lined with thousands of persons. His reception at the Town Hal! was most imposing. in leply to an addicts of welcome, Mi Gl&dsione said he hoped the people <of Bumiugham would never forget the services rendered by Mr Brighl, their representative in Puiiiamertt. In refening to affairs in Egypt, he said they were England's greatest trouble. The Fisheries Treaty had been an egregious failure, and the Sackvillc West incident in America was, he considered, a senous slight on England. Speaking on the administration of Ireland, he declared that the only tiophv Unionists possessed was the Coeicion Act. The locai control of the liquoi traffic was a question 'of proat mor-.rn'-, and had been 'rcmituod lmpuaiive. He twitted Mi Ualtour with absentee administration ot atidns - n Ireland. Ln future 'he thought ihe Great l\nv_is vvould become overcast, owing to the Balkans diflicuity. He lioiculed ihe Legislative triumphs claimed by the Unionists, and said the omission of the licensing clauses had rendered the Local Government Act passed ias»t session I practically a blank. He advocated one man one vote, reform of the land laws, and right of Scotch and English to laise the question of disestablishment of the iGhuich. Mr Gladstone predicted the I downlall of the dissentient Liberals at I the next general election.

London, Nooembev 7. Lord Onsiovv sails for New Zealand via Australia m February.

London, November 7. The. Pnvy Council has remitted to the Aicnbi&hop of Canicsbury the charge ot ntuahsm preferred against the Bishop of Lincoln.

London, November 7. The Marquis of Sahsbuiy leaves the ! jiObt ul Biii'bh Minister at Washington ' unfilled \t some tui"ie time, if ! Cleveland is Jected President, he will i directiy intimate to him England's resentment at Sn L. Sackviile West's tieatment.

i Nw York, November 7. The whaleis who were icebound at Alaska discoveied a passage, and have I been released.

I Washington, November 7. The result of the voting of the Electoial Colleges is that President Cleveland has been defeated. He leceived t6S votes, while the Republican candiI daLe, General Hamson, obtained 207.

Paris, November 4. An explosion occurred in a colliery tit Aveyron to-day, resulting in the death of fifty persons.

Paris, November 7. An anaichist attempted to blow up two tegistry offices in Paris with dynamite bombs. Great dangei was done and several persons injuied.

St. Petersburg, November 7. General Goukko, speaking at a banquet at Warsaw, refened to the very warlike spirit displayed by Germany and Austria, and warned those nations not to discount the possibilities of Rus- ; sian defect. If taunted too far, the Czar could order the Russians to cross the frontier in twenty-four hours. i There were, he said, no troops who could compaie with the Russians excepting the Turks, and when the light L time came he was convinced that their deeds would prove them worthy of this < reputation. Already, the Russian 1 troops knew the loads to Vienna and r Berlin.

Sydney, November 5. Unfavourable reports of the crops continue to be received from upcountry districts. At Forbes, where the yield is expected to be small, flour is selling at ;£i4, not at Sydney, as mentioned in a previous telegram. At Carrowinda, situated on the Bundalla River, the harvest is a failure, but at Grafton both grass and water are in abundance. At Walgett, in the county of Baradine, the rivers Namoi and Barwon, and the chain waterholes, have ceased to run. At Gilgandra, in the county of Gowan, the crop returns are given as nil. The heat in this colony yesterday was excessive. At Gulgongthe crops have been given up as a complete failure, The severity of the drought in Wilcannia district has rendered travelling impossible.

Sydney, ITov, 8. The ballot of members of the Miners' Union has resulted in a majority of over two hundred in favour of accepting the basis of settlement proposed. The Lithgow difficulty has been amicably settled.