CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 993, 7 February 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

"AGE" SPECIALS. London, Jan. 23. mere has been further severe fighting botween the Austrian troops and insurgents in Herzegovina; the former have been defeated at Gatchkatown, about 50 miles S.E. of Mostar, the capital of the Province.

The German police have seized all the copies of London Punch that were offered for sale m Berlin, on account of the caricatures which have recently appeared m it. They consider that their tendency was to bring Government into ridioule and contempt. The Russian Government recently made arrangements for havim- a census taken through the Empire. The inhabitants of l>anaburß, a town of the province Vitobisk, strongly objected to furnish the information required, and on officials endeavoring to compel them, offered decided resistance which culminated a serious riot.

bocialisis have lately been displaying considerable activity in Austria, and I number have been arrested in Brunn the chief town of Moravia, and other arrests are expected to follow.

A terrible explosion ha* occurred in a dynamite factory at port Vendresj, a aea port depot at Oriental in the south of Franco The factory TO complete, wrecked and 16 persons-were killed. ' A large number of tires have lately occurred at Chicago, causing great destruction of property. Quite a panio has been caused among the inhabitants, who attribute these works to incendiaries. ■ The Turcomans of.Merv have :made a raid upon Meshed, a large fortified town in the province of Kholasan, near tho : north east frontier of Persia. Several adjoining towns were also pillaged,"and' 30,000 sheep were taken away. A collision has taken place in the Suez Unal between two steamers, both' of which were considerably damaged, and an engineer was killed. ■ '

It is rumored in European polity cirflies that grave complications among great powers are impending, and that war is likely to break out in the ensuing spring. Austria is said to bo makihß great war-' ike preparations, and hostilities betweenthat power and Italy are believed imminent, '.■ , .. ~ "...

General Logerot havinsj departed with the French troops which recently occupied babes, a seaport town in South Tunis, a arge body of insurgent Arabs has attacked the tow n) an d its situation is considered critical.