LATEST CABLEGRAMS. [PER REUTER.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1491, 24 January 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS. [PER REUTER.]

Brisbane, January 23. Three more New Caledonian refugees, who recently landed, have been captured by the police. One still remains at large.

Adelaide, January 22. The two small-pox patients on board the P. and 0. steamship Mirzapore are now convalescent, one having been so eleven days and the other nine days. Both cases bad and of confluent type.

London, January 13. Much excitement has been caused in Germauy by the arrest of the Socialist deputy for Stuttgart. It is maintained that the arrest is illegal, as the Reichstag is now in session. The offence charged against him is that of soiling a calendar setting forth political principles which had been prohibited by Government.

January 15. Chancellor Bismarck announced in the Reichstag that, at the request of his Ministry, the Emperor had agreed to withdraw the Imperial rescript recently issued, in which he claimed as his prerogative the support of officials employed under the Crown. King Humbert has issued authority for the expenditure of three millions lire npon jortification of Rome, as recommended by the military staff. A Swedish mail steamer has been wrecked off the coast of Kalmar, eastern province of Sweden. The vessel sank, and is a total loss. Fifteen of the crew and passengei's were drowned. The French troops in Algeria are suffering greatly from the severity of the weather on the frontier of the Great Desert of Hahura. There* have been heavy falls of snow, and many of the French soldiers have died from exposure. Alphonso, King of Spain, paid a vis>it of friendship to the King of Portugal. A review was held in his honor at Lisbon, at which 12,000 Portuguese troops were marched before him. Much sympathy is evinced in England with the Jews of Russia, who have been subjected to severe persecutions. A fund has been started in London for their relief, and subscriptions are pouring m. Miss Richman, South Australian, a young lady, neice of Lady Fergusson, the late wife of the Governor of Bombay, died of cholera. The death of Lady Fergusson, from the same cause, was announced a few day 3 ago.