CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 1 November 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Keuter's Telegrams, by electric telegraph—copyright. LONDON, Ootober 31. Received November I, 1.10 a,m.Tlie report that Mossra Hollenshead and Tettley had become insolvent is devoid of truth. Arrangements have been made for an exhibition, to take place in 1886, on the site now occupied by the Internotional Fisheries Exhibition. It will be confined to the products of tho various British colonies. Two disastrous explosions, for which no explanation can be given, occurred last evening on the Underground Metropolitan Railway. Thirty persons were seriously injured, and tke buildings along tho tunnel were shattered by the force of the explosion. PARIS, October 30. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day ! M. Ohallemell was questioned' by the leaders of the Radical party regarding the intention of the Government in connection ' with the expedition to Tonquin, In reply, M. Lacour stated that the French Government were resolved to push operations in Ton

win firmly and rapidly, A debate oil .twii#tf wuraed, but m ultimately Adjourned. V- ' SYDNEY, ; ,. :• ' October 3a:; ■The"; Bill for amending the. law relating to/contempt of Court •was brought 'up for discussion in .the Legislative Council this" evening, and wtta rejected on division by nineteen votes to fourteen.