LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 292, 4 September 1873, Page 5

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

• (By Electric Telegraph.) London, August 22. Prince Arthur narrowly escaped drowning at Trouville, being saved by a French waterman. The wheat harvest is nearly finished. There is a falling off in the yield of nearly 20 per cent. The minimum deficit in France amounts to 15,000,000 hectolitres. The Tichborne case is nearly closed Dr. Kenealy, in concluding his address on behalf of the defendant, deplored his inability to produce Arthur Orton. An intimation has been received from the Treasury to the effect that the Government will pay the conscientious witnesses. The trial of the Bank of England forgers is proceeding. A plan was discovered by which they would have escaped from Newgate, the warders having been bribed. Arrivals from New Zeal ;nd. — Crusader, Warwick, Palmerston and Cissy. August 25. The wife of Marshal Bazaine petitions for her husband's immediate trial. Lieut. Fergtisson, son of the Governor of New Zealand, has sailed to the Colony, to act as aide de camp to his father. Dr. Begg, of Edinburgh, has obtained leave from the Presbytery to visit New Zealand. The Dover Castl9 has sailed with emigrants for Otago. A collision occurred at Retford on the Great Northern Line. Several persons were killed;