LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1494, 31 January 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

London, January 28. i The despatch by Earl Granville to the v United States Government has been published, in which the Foreign Secre3 tiiry strongly upholds the necessity for the maintainance of theAnglo- American, Clayton-Bulwer treaty in reference to the construction of a canal across the isthmus of Panama. The bodies of two bailiffs, who have been missing since December last, have been discovered tied in sacks and sunk in Lough Mask, a lake in West Ire3 land. r Pakis, January 28. M. de Freycinet has been summoned I by President Gr6vy to form a new Minis- ; and has accepted the task. 3 London, January 27. I The Da Ui/ News and Standard of this morning both publish paragraphs stating J that the informers against the marauders , who were recently sentenced to heavy terms of imprisonment have privately > revealed to the authorities the existence - of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in the southwe&t of Ireland, especially in the counties of Clare, Limerick, and Cork. Washington, January 2S. Guiteau, who was yesterday found ) guilty of the murder of President Gar- } field, has made application to the Court 1 for a new trial. f Sydney, January 30. Obituary : — Mr Patrick Higgins, well3 known as the contractor for construction } of the zigzag railway over the Blue [ Mountains. } There is good reason to believe that ' the small-pox epidemic has been stamped I; out. No case now exists in the city, and . there is only one patient suffering from j variola at the sanatorium.