CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1861, 10 December 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

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Reuter's Telegrams,

Melbourne, December 9 . Saliod this morning—Waihora for the Bluff.

No; fresh 'cases of smallpox have occurred .here, during the last three weeks, and the two patients at the hospital are how convalescent, ;' ' London, December 8.

Mr J. T, Hibbert, M.P, for Olham, | and . political Secretary to the Home has .-been appointed" Financial Secretary to tM ( Treasury, vice .Mr Leonard If, Courtney, resigned, The homeward Brindisi mails, per Orient steamship Potosi, from Mel; bourne, October 31, ; were delivered here to-day. Bombay, December 8. The Earl of Dufferin, who succeeds the Marquis of ftipon as Viceroy of India, arrived here to-day, and received a cordial welcome. Berlin, December 9. The International Conference has agreed that the freedom of navigation should be allowed on the Congo and Niger rivers. International control, however, would be confined to Congo, while England will control the Lower and France the Upper-Niger. .. Cairo, December 9. Judgment lias been given against the Egyptian Government in the action brought by the French, Austrian, and Italian members of tho Caisse of public debt, to prevent the suspension of the Sinking Fund; ■ 1: London, December 9. The Special Court to-day passed a sentence of« death on Captain Dudley and mate Stephens of the yacht Mignonette for. the murder of the boy Parker, Melbourne, Wednesday. .The Legislative Assembly, declining to. accept ' the Legislative Council's Amendments on the Railway Bill, has abandoned the measure, and is adopting the English precedent, A i\ew Bill has been introduced, embodying the Council's amendments in order to avert acrisis. i