LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 17, 9 November 1878, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

AUSTRA LI AN NEWS.

[Special to the Press Agency.] London, October 27 to November 2. Judgment has been given to in the case of the Alice disaster. No blame was attached to anybody. War material is being shipped to India. Subscriptions are initiated for the relief of the shareholders of the Glasgow Bank. The directors have been committed for trial for embezzling £20,000. England lias protested against Russia’s delay in executing the Berlin treaty. Tne insurrection in Uoumelia is spreadi'he Porte has complained to the Powers of Russia’s complicity in the attrocities perpetrated against tne Mussulmans in Bulgaria. Two wings of Mayuooth College have been burned. The loss is serious. Tile pictures and the laboratory were saved. It is reported tout the Government intend granting a gold currency to luaia. Tue Russian staff Have printed several thousand copies of a Russian-Afguan dictionary for use in the army._ Sciiouvaloff immediately ' succeeds Gortschakoff, and Orloff comes to London. There is grave anxiety regarding the relations of Austria and Italy. The former is massing 175,000 troops oil the Tyrol. Messrs Casey, Coombes, Boothby, and llodgson, the Colonial Commissioners lor the Paris Exhibition, are gazetted Knights Commanders of the order of St. Michael and St. George. The Daily News says that measures against the Ameer are postponed, pending the despatch of an ultimatum in accordance with directions from home, in which an opportunity is offered to enable the Ameer to change his attitude. In the event of the ultimatum being rejected the British troops are to occupy the passes. Twenty-six bishops and 159 clery were present at Cardinal Cullen’s funeral. It is understood that the Cabinet regard with Russian as inevitable, aud that Austria has promised active, and Fiance moral support. Germany will remain neutral—on condit.on that France is quiescent—with the view of averting a war.

(Reuter’s Telegrams to Press Agency.)

Athens, October 27. A treaty of alliance is being negotiated between Servia and Greece. In consequence of the amount of the debt of Egypt, negotiations have been opened between England, France, and Austria to agree to a proposal for a European conference. Calcutta, October 30. The Begum of Bhopol has offered to arm her troops in aid of the Indian Government. The whole of the Bhopol battalion have offered to volunteer for service anywhere. London, October 30. England has sent to the Ameer of Afghanistan an ultimatum. Tiie Standard states that England requires from all parties concerned a strict and literal execution of the Berlin proTlie relations between England and Russia are disquieting, owing to the situation in Itoumelia and the tone of the Russian Press. An extraordinary Cabinet meeting was held to-day. November 1. Mr Gladstone, speaking at a public meeting on the question of Afghanistan and the Eastern policy of the Government, said that the course adopted had caused a commercial stagnation, and, Diking higher ground, he considered it a violation of the eonstitution. It is officially stated that the reply of the Ameer of Afghanistan indicates avowed hostility, and it has been decided that this will be the Ameer’s last chance. An Afreede tribe have tendered their services to the British. There is no cause for anxiety. The Ameer’s troops are at Alimussede. The Northern Kelah tribes have rendered great assistance in furnishing supplies to the Quetta column. November 2. The monetary crisis has passed, and the money market is easier. Discount rates are falling. The Bank reserve is steadily rising. Consols have risen a quarter per cent. Australian securities are slowly reThere is to be a new Egyptian loan of eight and a half millions. Wheat is firmer ; New Zealand wheat is selling, ex Store, per 4961 b., according to quality, at 43s to 475. St. Petersburg, October 28. Russia disclaims any connivance in the insurrectionary movement in Macedonia. The official Austrian Gazettee announces the object of the rising is the extension of Bulgaria to the 2Egean Sea. November 2. The Russian Press has changed its tone, deprecates directly aiding the Ameer of Afghanistan, and advocates a benevolent neutrality. Sydney, November 6. The Budget was brought before the Legislative Assembly to-day. The estimated revenue for next year is £5,031,155, and the expenditure £5,331,070. There There are no changes proposed in the tariff. The loan is further postpoded. Paris, November 6. The French Government, in consequence of the British occupation of Cyprus, requires an assurance respecting French interests in Syria and Egypt. Salisbury, in replying, expressed a desire for the cooperation of France and England regarding Egyptian affairs. Sydney, November 8. The City of Sydney cleared Sydney Heads at nine this morning. The floods on the overland route having detained the Victorian mails, it became necessary to postpone the sailing of the ’Frisco steamer. The detention, however, will not interfere with the steamer’s departure from New Zealand, as she will be pressed on the passage to Auckland.

Melbourne, October 30. On Sunday night last Melbourne was startled with the intelligence from Mansfield that two constables hud been shot dead and that a sergeant of police was missing. It appears that two parties of police had been sent out in order to capture some bushrangers, headed by two brother named Kelly. Whilst a party of four police constables were camped* in.

bushrangers, four in nlimber, suddenly made their appearance and bailed up two of the constables, one of whom, on attempting to draw his revolver, was shot dead, ttie other surrendered. Presently the sergeant and the other man came. in. One of the constables attempted to defend himself, and lie was shot dead also. Constable Mclntyre, who was unarmed, and had previously surrendered, saw a chance, and made his escape by jumping on horseback. Shots were tired after him, and his horse was killed, but he escaped, and reached Mansfield, a distance of 25 miles, on foot, after hiding away for some hours from his pursuers. Sergeant Kelly, who was left with the ruffians, has not since been heard of, although every search has been made, and it is believed that lie too lias been shot. The affair is creating profound sensation, and armed parties of j police have been sent in pursuit. The country is very wild, and the capture of the desperate gang may be a work of difficulty and danger. The bodies of Constables Scanlon and Lonergan have been brought into Mansfield for burial. In August, 1877, a box containing 5000 sovereigns was stolen from the mail steamer Borda. The police having now got a clue to the robbery, have arrested Martin Wabort, formerly carpenter aboard the Borda, who since his discharge from the vessel lias been living on a selection on Bangui river, South Gippsland. This place was searched, and a number of sovereigns found most cleverly secreted away, in a carpenter’s plane and other tools, in various parts of the log hut. He has since made a confession, and another person is implicated. The prisoner stands remanded.