NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3082, 17 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

r Suakim, Decembei 14, Osman Digna has wiitten to Qroufell . asserting that the Malidi lias, conquered the Equatorial pro-vinces.-Emm- Bey resisted'to the last, but at length his " troops mutinied, and delivered him and'a white traveller ■ (supposed to be Stanley) into the hands of the enemy. Oswan Digna hss • sent proofs in support of his assertion. One of Osman Digna's forts,; mounted' with 46 : pounders, which maintained a heavy fire? has seriously damaged another of theirown forts. '. : The letter received by General Grenfell from Osman Digna gives details of the surrender of .Emin Bey and a white traveller to tho Malidi at Lado, on October 10. ; Osman Digna- onoloses a letter from the white traveller who sur- _i rendered with Emin Bey, whioh proves to be a-copy; of a letter given by the Khedivd : to Stanley," and in-' tended for Emin Bey, New Yobk, December 14.. During a performance at the Opera House,, Oswego,- on ; tlid ? slioreS; of Lake Ontario, in which Mrs Langtry was taking part, a fire broke' out in the Theatre, No particulars are yet to hand, but Mrs Langtry is known to be safe, ' ' • London, December 141v During a.discussion on the Naval Estimates • Lord: Charles B.eresford said England's active fleet'comprised only 80 battle ,ships, and if theso iwere lost the Empire would probably bo lost. We plight to spend £20,000 000. a ,year. . The Navy required at once, to put it in a really formidable condition, 74 vessels, of various classes, 'the ' united: cost' of"whioh would be some £20,000,000.. Lord George Hamilton, - First Lord of the Admirality, admitted that the Navy needed ! ■' increasiugi : . The; chief defect, was. tho want, of sufficient guus to properly equip the yejsels we had' already builti Still England possessed 84 battle ships to France's 18. The Government would wouldnext session submit proposals j for. increasing the effectiveness of the Navy, based on the-requirements of the country in the event of war.' Higgins, the well-known aeronaut, while giving an exhibition at Enfield, accidentally dropped his paraohute just as lie was preparing to descend. Ho cauglit the balloon netting, and, i thus suspended, travelled miles,' hanging in mid-air. Tho accident .was .witnessed by thousands oi people and a great panic prevailed, as certain death seemed to' await the aeronaut, who, however, escaped with only a few bruises.. •

.A. big gun exploded aboard a French'ironclad, and six of the crew were killed. .

Belgrade, December 14, . The result of the • recent elections is regarded as a direct snub ■to King Milan, inasmuch as only forty. Royalists • were .elected while five obtained seats. , December, thrSllusby^^^Mj^M dollars. Mr Buttorworth, of Ohio, bas moved in the House of' Representatives tliat the President be empowered to invite Canada and England to negotiate for tbe admission of the Dominion or any province thereof into the United States./ Paris, 14th December. ■ • Charles do Lesseps states that if the Pmiaina Loan is a failure, the money will be returned to the inves. tors,