LATE CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1086, 30 May 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ENGLISH NEWSj^ (PKB ARAWATA.) : Londos, May 23, In the House of Commons, the progress of the Bill providing for the liquidation of Irish tenants' arrears iif rent is being airenunusly o|ip->Fe<l by the Tones, who urgis that the' States tln'mld contribute the quota specified iu thu ineaßure bb a luan, and not as a uift. * May 24. Lord Harris has addressed a letter to the newspaper* in which he expresses Iris opinion that in the absence of any public disavowal up to the present of the, collusion imputed to Shaw's cricketing eleven in connection with their visit to the colonies, each member should make ;t stawory declaration of the falsity of the Bcandal.

Arabi Bey' is defying the European Powers, and reltos on his strength «s leading the nationalist movement in Egypt. M. Loon Say, Minister of Finance in Franco, haß withdrawn his resignation.

FIJIAN NEWS.

(PBB 8.3. TAIAROA.) THE LATK HURRICANE. A TERRIFIC TIDAL WAVE, WIDESPREAD DISASTER. By the arrival of the Taiaroa, files have been received to the2oth mat. The "Fiji Times" gives the following additional particulars of the rocent hurricane:-"By the arrival of the ketoh Patience, from Tong;., fuller particulars are to hand of the severo hurricane which has devastated a portion of that group. Captain Castles reports that the hurricane occurred on the 25th ultimo, but that it was Vavou, and not'Tongatilm, which experienced its full violence. Tin barque lost at the former port was the Don Guillmo, Captain Johnston, who, with all his officers and -six seaman, wero drowned. When the vessel went down five boys (natives) were saved. The wreck now lies in thirty fathoms of water. The hurricane was accompanied by a tidal wavo fifteen feet high, which swept over the island and did terrible damage. The same wavo destroyed the storehouse of Messrs McArthur and Co., of Auckland, which at the time contained over 300 tons of copra awaiting shipment. All the houses of the natives and many European constructions were carried away j the cocoanut treea were snapped off like pipestems, and the island presents a scene of desolation. The John Wesley, Captain Doncastor, from Sydney, left Vavou for Hatai with 25 passengers, most whom were Europeans, about five hours beforo the hurricane began. She had a fearfully rough passage, and had three of her boats smashed to pieces at thp-davits, but i reached her port. without more serious damage. The onrrioane is said to have been the worst ever experienud in that group. Tongatihu escaped allplher, and Captain Castlea' reports. thaj#sw at at Wallis Island or Future *£, fl any unusual disturbance noticeable. At Tongatihu (?) all the churches were destroyed, 2000 houses levelled, and stores and cepra houses, with contents, thit happened to be near the sea, were completely swept away. A schooner was carried inland, ana the German barque Casailis («ie) foundered."

V CONTINENTAL, Cairo, May 27. Since the resignation of tip' Council of Ministers, the Khedive hasfeued a pro-1 clamation announcing that he has assumed I the suprome control of the Egyptian anny ■ Many of the Generals are, however, open-H ly urging the deposition of Tewfik and have sent a demand'to his Highness W that Arabi Pasha should vviihin twelve® hours be reinstated as Minister of War.H The Khedive has resolutely refused to aj gree to this demand. The affairs is deemed most critical, The gravity of the political continues to increase,' and great prevails on occount of the state of vrhichnow exists. Tlio Khedive, to the prayers of the Notables, threats of the military, lias npw to the WMtaterient. of Arabi -Pasha Miniitjflfof Ww. J

Constantinople, May 28, Preparations aro being made for despatching an Imperial Commisjion to ,-liaypt with a viow- of effecting a settle'r?- ? f .% pr ?.? ent crißia - is believed that tho object o! the Porte in intervene ■mj o tly'. alipporf the military iwy.'n Egypt i»s against the Khedive.