LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 165, 30 September 1892, Page 5

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Friday, noon. The Cholera. The cholera has reached Ghent, the capital of Flanders. The number of deaths in Hamburg yesterday was fifty-three. The new treatment by which peispiration is produced, is reported to be very effective in staying fatal results. Cholera is decreasing in Boulogne. The Sealing- Disputes. Canadians accuse the United States of prompting the seizure of sealers by Russia. A warship is going to Siberian Coast to demand the release of British sailors seized by Russia upon sealing vessels. Tasmanian Wealth. F. Braddon in an article in Blackwood’s Magazine, on Tasmanian silver field, states that the mines are regarded as of more phenomenal wealth than those of Broken Hill, and considers there will be sixty - thousand people on field by the end of the year. Hand in Hand. Lord Ripon has invited the Agent-Gen-eral to meet him on the oQfcli inst. to discuss Colonial mailers. Haggens Charge. W. Syms, who prosecuted Haggen of the Woodville Examiner, and obtained a conviction for criminal libel, is now being charged with illegal operation on the same person Haggen wrote about. John Lundon’s Land Purchases. The Hon E. Mitchelson spoke very strongly last night in the House of Rop - resentatives regarding John Lundon’s conduct in purchasing Native Lands at Kaitaia, No Exemption for Standing Timber. Messrs Houston and R. Thompson endeavoured without success to get standing timber exempted from Taxation Bill. Gumdiggers’ Petition. The gumdiggers’ petition for use of Fairbank’s scales by gumbuvers and that hotel-keepers be not allowed to purchase gum, has been recommended by the Petitions Committee to the consideration of Government. The Markets. General business is quiet and unsettled. Maize off wharf is in good demand, and worth 2s Bd. Butter lOd. Eggs 6d. Gum at reduced rates is active, but all showing a reduction of nearly £lO per ton from rates ruling a month ago,^