LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

London, July 28. News is to hand from Tunnevillo, ft town in the Preaidency of Madras, that during a performance in the theatre the building tookjjre, and was completely destroyed, and * hundred of thoso present were killed in the panic that ensued. Truth states that Mr Gladstone wfll go on a yachting cruise round tho Irish and Scottish coasts. The P. and O. Company are having steamer built at Belfast, similar to the one that in to be built at Greenock. The Rev. Alexander McKonnel haa been elected chairman of the Congregational Union for the ensuing year. The Prince of Wales is prepared to accept the executive presidency of a permanent Colonial Exhibition, if tho present guarantees are renewed, and yearly grants made for its maintenance by the colonies. London, July 2!). A shocking tragedy is reported from Penzance, Cornwall. 4. man named James Hawke, who recently returned from Australia, mortally wounded his sisters, brother-in-law, and a neighbour by shooting them. He then committed suicide. Baron De Lesaeps' report on the Panama Canal, shows a balanco of 241 million francs. He pledges himself to open the canal in 1889. The mails from Australia and Now Zealand, per Alameda, from Auckland on June 22, were delivered yesterday. Honkong, July 27. # A convention has been singed at Pekin between the British and Chinese Governments, by which China formally recognises British rule in Burmah.