CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 333, 12 January 1889, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

L©ni>on, January 7. A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out in the premises of Messrs Fitters, meat salesmen, Smithfield, fco-day, and before the conflagration was masteiocl twelve shops were consumed. Very little frozen meat was burnt. The match between the Maori footbal team and the "Bughthouse Rangeis was played yesteiday, when the Maoris won bv a goal and a tiy to nothing. Itis reported that (he lne of the Right Hon. J. A. Balfour, Chief Secretary of Ireland, is in imminent danger from the Invihcibles, and he is being carefully guat ded ! The impotts of i\\c United Kingdom i last year amounted to : > and the exports to X-33> 700.000. The Antweip wool sales will commence on the 15th, and close on the j iSth instant. "The catalogue will comprise 12,440 bales including 3.655 from Australia. The accident to the Rev. C H. Spurgeon took place at Mcntone, France, wheie he was wsiung toi the benefit of his health He accidentally ; fell downstairs, knocking out two of his teeth, loosening three oihus, and receiving a shock to the s\ sit-in. One anest has I) en m.ide in con- j neetion with the murder 0' 'he ;m!e girl who was so m ttib'.y inn il.ued at "S e.nh bridge in Sorueisetshire. The prisoner X a labourer. Forty Btennan totpedoes are being placed in portion toi coast defences. ; Sheerness ha ? been appointed a testing I st a tion. Lord Onslow will give a farewell banquet at Guilford on Februaiy 6th. Rev. C. Spurgeon has been injuied by a fall. The personal estate of the late Sir \V. H. Pearce, who died several weeks ago, amounts to about Lady JBrassey's book on the events of her last voyage will be published in February. Her Majesty the Queen intends to bequeath her Jubilee pvesents to the nation. Mr Halliwell Phillips, Shakespearian scholar, is dead. Mr A. J. Balfour. Secretary for Ireland, has intimated to the Irish priests that in future the military will thoroughly protect the police when the latter are enfoio.ng evictions. He adds that no parleying will ensue after those resisting evictions have i been warned, and called upon to vacate their homesteads. The directors of the AJanchesLcrChamber of Commerce have carried a resolution to the effect that the resolution passed at the meeting on December 19, declaring that all imported goods j similar to goods that can be produced and sold in the United Kingdom have . a light to pay their proportion of local and Impel ial taxation, does not represent the voice of the Chamber, and the Chamber expiesses its ciitiie adherence to free trade principles j

Pakis, January 7. ?vl. De Lesseps has been offered the chanmanship of the ne.v Panama Canal Company, which is to be formed with a capital of twenty multon pounds. President Carnot has refused to sub scribe to the new company. The labourers employed on the Panama Canal are dissatisfied because of the Teeling having arisen that there are no funds with which to carry on operations. It is feared that a tolal suspension of the work is imminent. The Republican Congress have selected M. J. Acquea, a distiller, as a candidate to oppose General Boulanger in the election for the department of Seine. General Boulanger has pro mised his support to the Panama Canal Co., and is largely purchasing bonds, Victoria and New Zealand are required to intimate before the 15th if they intend to occupy the space allotted to them at the Paris Exhibition. M. Haytian, Legitimist, has been defeated, and the Boulangist candidates elected for the departments of Somme and Charente. There is considerable excitement in the city, owing to the Eiffel Tower, which is being erected in Champs de Mars in connection with the Exhibition of 1889, visibly declining, consequent on the subsidence of the foundation. M. Jacques has been appointed President ot the Seine General Council.

Berlin, January 17. Professor Geffcken was released on the ground that he was unaware that the publication of the Emperor's diary was a criminal offence. He received a great ovation on his return to Hamburs;. The press applaud the courage of the Supreme Court in taking the ] course adopted. , The Berlin "Post" hints thafcMarshal Bazaiue's denial, publishod by Sir Ii Morier, is a forgery. The Geffcken inquiry has confirmed the old reports that Sir Robert Morier betrayed State secrets divulged to him by the Emperor Frederick. Prince Bismarck is unfriendly to Morier, and inspired the " Cologne Gazette " to justify itself by the reply that the diary of Frederick was untrustworthy 3 hence Sir JR.. Morier's appeal and Count Herbert Bismarck's snub The relations between the English and German Foreign Offices have been strained by the incident.

Naples, January 7. Mr Gladstone has gane on a visit to Pompeii. Constantinople, January 8. Information has reached here of the

wreck of a vessel in the Black Sea, and tho loss of ono hundred lives.

VusNNA, Januavy 7. Captain Wissman proceeds in Febru ary to Zmzibar, whcie he will enrolltroops.

Str.umi, January 7. It has been ascertained from a deserter from the lebel ranks that Osman Digna is ai Handoub with twelve hunched men, and lofuses to return to Tokar. He commenced offensive operations directly the Butish left. A desortor, who has just, anivod from Khartoum, icports thai Emm 13ey is a prisoner there, being well treated.

1/ajko, January 7. The Khedive intends to inteitai General Greniell at a banquet i honout of his victory at Suakim.

Tin: Hauuk, January 8. The latost bulletins issued respecting the health of King William 111. of Holland, who has boon suffering horn an aflliction of the throat, state that ho is dying.

Constantino i-lk, January 7. The Turkish Government is seumg the railway from Scutari to Israid in Asia Minor.

St. FGTKTism'ttt.;, January 7. Princess Helena was driving in a .sledge alone the Chackoff railway I xvhen u w.is overtaken by a train, and the diivor was killed and the princess | knecktd senstiiesb. 'I'ne tiam actiidily parsed over her, but she escaped umnI jurecl.

Wasiiinhtox, January 7 The Committee of the House of Representatives recommend that theic should bo inei eased stringency in the immigration legulations of the United Slates. The Senate has, by 40 to .°>, adopted the motion brought forward by JYJr Cl. F. Edmunds, Senator for Vermont, declaring that the Senate disapproves of the Government having any connection with the European control over the Panama Canal, as it would bo injurious to American interests, and requesting the President to express to the European Powers the views entertained by the Senate upon the question.

San Josl, January 7. Several shocks of earthquake have been experienced throughout (Josta liica, and many persons have been inI jurecl.

Nm\ \oitK, January 7. Mr P. T. Barnum, the woll-known entrepreneur, has rented on a foitune of ten million dollais. !

BRfc.RAtM,, Jununn 7. The Ivint^ ot Seivia visits the Riviera. A Regency is being nppoinied.

Bixgkadl, January 7. M. Kistics has snbniittcd to Jving Milan the names of a Liberal "Russojihilc Miuishy.

Bo.mi.ay, .January 7. AspinallV oil y.inls at Cochin, u seaport of ]ndia, rune octn uesstioytd by hre. Tht* damage amnunis to

Sydney, January 7. Heav\ rams have n^ain occuned a Albury, on the border of Victoiia and New South Wales, and nave caused damage to the standing stocks and to the wheat in stacks. It is estimated that the loss will amount to one-third of the actvial yield. Potatoes have reached f.imtno juices, \md are selling at sixpence per dozen. Owing to the existence of scab, the importation of sheep from New Zealand has been prohibited for twelve months. Louisa Coll'ns, sentenced to death foi poisoning her husband, was executed to-day. A serious bungle was made of the execution. The trap, on which the unfortunate woman stood, refused to act, and it was quite thirty seconds before the drop took place after the signal had been given. All this time the doomed woman displayed wonderful calmness, and when the drop fell the head was almost severed from the trunk. Mis CoWins was reserved to the last, and made no confession. It is forty years since a woman was executed in Sydney. The Russian warship Nayedivk sailed for Auckland this afternoon.

Melbourne, Jan. 9. At the Conteience of professois of the Australian and New Zealand Universities yesterday, the business war, of a preliminary nature. Committees were appointed to report on matters of importance, in connection with University education. The next meeting will be held at the same time and place. The Australian Society of Science and Intercolonial Medical Congress was opened yesterday by an addiess delivered by President Fitzgerald. An able paper on " Medical Progress " was i delivered by Professor Stuart. The Sydney members of the Society are to j be banquetted. The Victorian Government aie aranging for the exchange of parcels beween this colony and New Zealand.

Brisbane, January 8. Obituary : Mr Simon Fraser, M, H.R., Chairman of Committees. A man named Wieland has been arrested on a charge of beating his son | to death with a horsewhip.

Hobart, Jan. 9. Tne Tasmanian Parliament met yesterday. The Treasurer's statement \ showed that there was a deficiency iin the year's accounts of The total deficiency is estimated at ;£"! 60,000. This deficiency the Government propose to extinguish by the imposition of an income tax, a tax of

gd per on veal estate, and 4d per £ on personal propeily. Tuuhsday Island, Jan. 9. Eastern news is lo hand by the Biitiah India steamer. The steamer Vmtarua is supposed to have foundeu;d with thirteen hundied passengeis in November last. Uatd fighting has taken place at Formosa between thiee thousand rebels on one side and the regulars on the other. The lubeis were repulsed, and there were losses on both sides. Riots have occmrvd at Canton through the merchants impoiting machinery for the nunuUclute ot bilks. Six persoiio were killed and many mjmed. A band of pirates at Haiphong were oispersed. Seventeen weru killed.