CABLEGRAMS. London, January 10.

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CABLEGRAMS. London, January 10.

The " Murning Post" vsays that Germany's action in Scunoa was dishonest and treacherous. SK* ought ac the Washington conference to obtain an exclusive monopoly in the island. Britain was weakly inclined to accede, but America tesisted. Mi K. Hainngton, who relumed to comply with the prison legulauons, asset ts that the authorities hav^ no n»ht to suborn him to the indignities ot common malefactors. A disastrous galo has raged around the coast of Great Britain, and numerous wrecks and fatalities arc reported. The National Rank of New Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent. A protest has been lece'^ed from J-muuc.i against the appointment o! Sir Henry Blake as Governor on the ground that having been objected 10 by the Government ' of Queensland he is not a tit peison ten iippointoieni to Jamaica. Lord Knutsford is paying no heed to the proles'. The trial of the Bishop of Lincoln on tho chaise oi Ritualism commences on l<\jbiuaryl2bh. Tho pre^s comments, on the great rise in the price of fanning stock in Ireland. The lailway receipts arc ulso largely increasing. An atrocious murder is reported irom Godalming, a municipal borough in Surrey. An artist named Jennings enticed a young woman with whom he was keeping company into his studio, and alter seducing the unfortunate girl he strangled her to death. A fund is being organised here for the lelief of tho Chinese who are sutlcring fiom a famine in consequence of the recent iioods in China, caused by the overflowing of the Yangtpckiang and Yellow Rivers. At a public reception tendeied him by the people ot Birmingham Mr Chamberlain, in responding to the toast ot" Parliament, saia ho would not accept a title it oifered one A twofold Parliamentary reform was necessary in order to ensure the better despatch of business, namely, the lelcgation ot much ol tho work to errand committees, and the personal punishment ot members guilty of disorderly conduct. Lord Kimberley, speaking lit VVymondham Norfolk, said the colonies were evidently anxious to secure as Governors, peers of tho realm, and tins wish he thought should bo gratified. Mr Wni. O'Biien, addressing the National League convention at ivikUne, said the absence ot ciimo in Ireland was defeating the coercive policy of the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland. [ The Maori footballers played and defeated a team representing Huddersfield yesterday. The match was a , close one, but the Maoris scored , two coals and a try against two ! goals ontaniuu b> t ii^;. ,, 1 . r .».*0..ba. 'liio , Maoris have now a splendid record for their tour. SSo far they ha\e played 42 matches, and of these they have won 27, lost 12, , and drawn 3. They have scored 211 points, [ and nad 96 scored against them. Washington", January 9. PiUNer Bi^iakck is usinn his influence j with the nrefes to induce it to adopt a ' naci'ic tone towaid-s England legarding j the Samoan question, j A man named Sciuiiiciihasbcun arrested on a charge of murdering three men lu-ing in a small \ illage in Washington tet ritory. The accu.-ed, who was on bad tet ms with the victims, blew up the house in which they lived with dynamite. i Slw Yokk, .January 10. j A cyclom. has devastated Reading in j Pennyslvania. Fifty people have been killed. Jt struck and destroyed n silk mill in which 250 people were at woik Only part of them escaped. I' i-> esfimatt-vl that seventy j.tt>ons, . pii. ciprJ.iv t^nis. v. li ■ kiln* 1 at a silk ficioiy.n Raiding, which va-. <!estio)ed by iiie 4i.lurjf The toinwio was i s>evere!\ felt at Pittsburg and Wilhamsf >rt, besides Reading, and scores of buildings, including many chinches, w<-jc completely wrecked. Hundreds of persons wae killed. I'hc C) clone experienced yeteiday 1 .vrecked the suspension budge .a Niatiaia, a. -d caused huge buildings to fall I J'ke a p.KK ot r^sds. ll is believed that the loss vi" life, will cxc ed the estimate. In inanv instances, \\h>-ie houses were wiecked they < aught fire and ihe occupants we:e loa^ted aiivein the jutr.s. Appfitlmg repoits are being leceiveJ ah to the debtrti' uon oi proper!) and lc.'-s of i;/e in c<>n'seo,Uf-pce °^ snowsio'rns and cyclone experienced at New England, Michigan, and Wisconsin. 'Ihe oldest lesidents as~erc thit nothing approachn q such vio'ei^Cc Was ever leirembeied in the States. Most of tlu- raiiv.yys aro blocked, and ihe damage v\ill ci.nount ut ivnst to five million dolicus*. Tne Goveiniuet.t have oideud lh)ee men-of-vver to ie equipped foi service a.t bamod jnd Panama. The damage to the Niagara Suspension Bridge by the cyclone is estimated at half-a-raillion dollars. Fourteen bodies were recovered from one building in Pittsburg. The damage to the Reading railway amounts to $80,000. One hundred pereons were recovered alive bub were more or less injured from the ruins of a silk mill destroyed at Read. It is feared that a steamer which waa conveying naval officers irom San Francisco to More Island, will have been caught in the gale. Further particulars show that the tornado took an easterly path covering a track only two hundred feet in width. It passed through the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Besides those killed many thousands of of people were injured. The Reading Bailway Station was razed fco the ground and sot on fire. Telegraph communications was interrupted in all directions. Snow and rain followed he cyclone. Three gasometers in Brooklyn exploded, and threw the city into partial darkness. Damage was done to the extent of half-a- , million dollars. The explosion is supposed ' to be due to the electrical disturbance con- \ sequent on the tornado. ( ' ' Romjs, January 10. I The Pope has'sent a golden medal to Cardinal .Manning.

I Mount Vesuvius is threatening an orup- | tion. Paris, January 10. It is announced that the contractors for tho Panama Canal will continue work at their own expense till February 15th. Viknna, January 10. Count Tisza, President of the Council, threatens to resign unlesa the Army Bill is adopted. Tho "Ta^blatt" newspaper declares that Menabrea told M. (Joblet that Italy would blockade Tunis if France enforced the docree regarding Italian teachers, but France practically withdrew from the position. Zanzibau, January 10. A revolution has broken out amongst ihe Arabs at Qrganda. The English and French mi scions, which contained stoics and letters ior Em in Bey ;in<l Stanley; h.ive been destroyed. Mow.inga has been imprisoned by the Aiabs, who threaten to exterminate all the missions in Central Afnca for the antislcue policy in England. The English missionaries are safe. Sydxey, January 11. The weather is again vny hot, and the country in many paits is becoming parched. At Inverell the prospect of ', the maize and potato crop is not good. To-day Sir Henry Parkos forwarded the resignation of his Ministry to His Excellency the Governor, and ifc was accepted. Lord Carrington sont for Mr .lohn Henry Want, member for (iundagui, but lie declined to undertake the responsibility of forming a now Ministry. Mr G. li. Dibbs, member for the Murrumbidg-ce, has now been aent ior and is forming a new Cabinet. In oider to :dlow Mi G. R Dibbs 'eauer of tho Opposition, lime fur the loif.at.ion -., of a new Ministry, the, Hou^e lut adjourned until Tuesday j next. MnLßOt'itM-:, January 11. \t the* Intcic oloiiia! Medical Congies-> to da), Professor McLauun, of Sydney, n-ad a paper on the moitality of Australasia. Taking llie year 1885 us ihe stand 'id of Ins inquir), he showed that the death ia c !rom consumptun in New Souih Wales, Vic tuna, and Queenslnnd eqmlled the ( aveiagv' t-l miv thickly -populated coun- j tiy in the Old World. In this disease 1 Tasmania, South Austr<din, and JN r ew Zealand bad a veiy L).v peicentage. ' In all c!as-es ot -nfantile di<i asts New ' Zealand and Victoria had the best le- ' cord. As regaids typhoid and diphtheridQueensland headed the death rate; ( but typhoid was rapidly increasing in ' Victoria. Now Zealand an 1 Tp^mania I have 'he lowest peicentage in the two dihcnses m« niioned. :