CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 401, 11 September 1889, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

London, September 3. Slavin has challenged Smith to fight for the championship and £200 a side. Slavin and Goode have been matched to fight in October twelve rounds for a-side. The murder of a gentleman, touring in the neighbourhood of Goatfell Mountain, Island of Arran, has created considerable excitement throughout Scotland for a week past. Laurie, the murderer, has been captured just as he was in the act of committing suicide. The value of the hop crop is estimated at ;£i 30,000. The yield is of excellent quality.

London, September 6. Searle is fancied by the majority of sportsmen for his match with O'Connor, which takes place on Monday next, for tho Sculling Championship of the »vorld. A cargo of sawn kauri timber by the barque Blenda, from Kaipara, is selling at Glasgow at an average of 2s 8d per i cubic foot.

London, September 5. The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Mining Company of New Zealand, which was announced in June last with a capital of has not been floated. The New Zealand Antimony Company will obtain additional capital, and work the mine themselves. The Maurice Wood colliery, Edinburgh, has caught, tire, and 60 miners have been entombed. Little hope is entertained of rescuing the men alive.

Paris, September 5. Desperate efforts are being made to prevent the return of General Boulanger. The Government declare that he is ineligible for election unless he sets the verdict aside by • returning. The Prefects have been secretly directed to prevent the victory of Boulanger's followers.

New York, September 3. The trial of the persons accused of the murder of Dr. Cronin has been blocked, the numerous challenges having exhausted the whole number ofjuryrhen ordered to attend without a sufficient number to try the case being erapannelled.

• -Sydney, September 4. ; The Government explains with refer" ence to the recent London cablegram that they had invested in ;£i, 000,000 worth of Treasury bills, that over that amount was lying idle at the Associated Banks, London, and, it has been re-in-vested in short-dated Exchequer bills in order to save interest. The bodies recovered from the Glebe Pit present a horrible sight, and are nothing but skin and bone. It appears that the unfortunate men made desperate efforts to escape, and in the case 01 Hodson he had pierced a tunnel 44 yards in length before his strength gave way. Cardinal Moran explains that the circular issued by the Roman Catholic Synod to priests merely approved of the insurance of church property with certain companies. He admits that Catholic priests were directed to forbid their followers joining, j the Foresters, Oddfellows, Druids, ! Good Templars, or kindred societies, and explains that the reason for this was that the funeral rites of these societies clashed with church rites.

Melbourne, Sept. 6. The most extensive floods ever known are raging at Numurkah, a post town, with money order and savings bank office and telegraph station, 133 miles north of Melbourne. Miles of country inundated and great loss of stock has taken place. The area of Numurkah is 618 square, miles and the population is 6,700. It is an important agricultural and pastoral district.

KOBART, SeDt. (), The direct steamer Rimutaka arrived from last night. She sails at eleven this rnorning for New Zealand. The Rimutaka brings thirty-seven passengers for Australia and a hundred pasbengers for New Zealand.

Sofia, September 6. The Bulgarian troops have formed an entrenched cap at Dragoman, a town on the border of Servia,

San Francisco, Sept. 6. A mutiny is reported to have occurred on board the ship Acorn, lying at San Francisco. Many desertions occurred.

Brussels, September 7. The explosion was heard at Ghent, and the flames issuing from the burning petroleum factories were visible at Brussels. A panic ensued amongst the people of Antwerp, and many, including soldiers who were on duty preserving order, were .suffocated. The firemen were absolutely impotent to stay the conflagration, and buildings extending over five acres of ground were destioyed. The Cathedral window was smashed, and the spire so much shaken as' to be dangerous.

London, September 8. Lord Hartington, speaking at Yorkshire, said that if the result of the forthcoming general elections was to , give a majority in favour of Home Rule, Unionists would compel the country to reconsider its decision, every constitutional resource to prevent such a great change hurriedly made.