REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 23 November 1881, Page 2

REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS.

[from our ow.v cobbespondent.] London, Novpmber 21. The result of the election at Stafford has created considerable interest and dis« enssion, not only in the neighborhood, but throughout England, The Liberals attribute Salt's victory to his local influence. The Irish, however, support i lie Conservative claim that the result of the contest must he looked upoa as a crushing censure on the Government. Paris, 21. At an interview hell between Sir Charles Dilke, British Foreign Undersecretary and M. Gambetta and M. Kouvier, tha new Minister of Com* merce.. it has been decided that the formal negotiations for the new AngloFrench Commercial Treaty should be commenced in the middle of December. Lord Kimberley has intimated that the British Government are willing to accede to th& wish expressed by Oetewavo, exKing of the Zulus, who is now confined at the Cape Colouy, to be- allowed to visit England, in order to lay his griev* aneds before Her Majesty. The police Lave seized at Bradford, Yorkshire, 50 revolvers weich are be•lieved to bate been secreted by Fenians, together with a quantity of cartridges; they have also discovered a list of members belonging to a Fenian organisation In connection with the discovery a man named Tobin has been arrested at Middlesborough, Yorkshire. A typhoon bas hwvpt over Western China, occasioning the loss of many lives, and the destruction of a vast amount of property. Two thousand houses and one hundred churches were blown down*

Two hundred girls hare been butchered in Ashantoe. They were offered according to tho custom of the country as a religious sneriflce. Melbourne, November 2:1. The Age to»dny publishes a paragraph, stating that a deficiency of £5000 was recently discovered in the books of the Union Bank of Australia, aod that an official who wns implicated has sinee re ! urned money in connection with the recent bank of Victoria. (Special to Melbourne Age.) London. The propos.il made by Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that European Powers should join in collective vote to protest against the posi» tion assumed by the United Slates of having paramount control over the Punarna Canal, has been received in a very lukewarm manner. Healy, Parnell's late secretary, and Sheeby, who recently left Paris, for the United States, hive arrived at New York. They have been delivering excited harangues before very larsre Irish audiences, in course of which they denounced the English Government in the most violont and unmeasured langimgc. Another severe shock of earthqunke has been experienced at A grain, the capN tal of Croatia, Austria, who9e destruction from the same cause was suffered a few months ago: (Vetown. The Zu'us are giving trouble by fight ing among themselves. One poweifu! chief, brother to Cetewayo, has driven minor chief out of Zululand into the Transvaal, killing a large number of men, and confiscating their cattle.