CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 27 April 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. _FBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.] Constantinoplf, April 26. Four domesties of the Tcheragan Palace have confessed that tbe Sultan Abdul Az'z, who was believed to have committed suicide'on the 4th June, 1876, by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors, was murdered by themselves. The confession of the assassins'iuiplioales several prominent public officials' in this city. London, April 25. Intelligence has been received that the French force has crossed tbe frontier from Hegeria into Tunis, without opposition. The announcement comes from New York of a plot amongst tbe Irish Fenians of the city to murder Gladstone. The project is said fo have been seriously entertained, and to be credited by the New York police, but here the matter is not thought genuine. Precautions are being taken. An Englishman travelling east of Sal* ooica, in European Turkey, has been seized by brigands and carried off to tbe hills, and they demand £15,000 randsom, and threatens to murder the prisoner. Louise La Ramee (Ouida), the well known novelist, is dead. April 24. A woman at lowa, United States, has died after an attempt fto fast forty-seven days. She survived the full terra bot died exhausted immediately afterwards. A match between Trickett and Boyd is being arranged. Cape Town, April 25. News is to band from |Natal tbat the demeanour of the rival Boer factions in tbe Transvaal States causes considerable anxiety. The Royal Commission appointed to undertake a settlement of the Transvaal question will commence its deliberations shortly. Sydney, April 25* The miners emplored in the Newcastle collieries have made arrangements for holding a mass meeting for the purpose of considering Chinese immigration and tbe employment of Chinese labor in coal mines.