LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1203, 4 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

♦ ■■ (per reutrr'B aornct.) I Received December 2, 12.45 p.ro. London*, November 30. The bank rate of discount remains at 5, and the market rate 3£ per cent. The total reserve in notes and bullion '.n the Bank of England is eleven millions, bfting half a million more than last week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 42 per cent New Zealand securities are without quotable change. Melbour c, December 1. * rrived.— Orient, from Plymouth, October 2. The Australian Frozen Meat Company's report shows that their shipments of meat to England have resulted in a low of £3000. London, l. In the House of Commons to-day Sir Charles Dilke stated that the Egyptian Government had asked that a British commander, and British officers might be appointed to the new Fgyptian army. Latest reports announce — that Dr Tait is flow expiring, all hopes of his recovery having been abandoned. 1 Constantinople, 1. A new Turkish Ministry has been formed under Ahmed. Vefcy Pasha, (irand Vizer; Cafet Pasha has been appointed Foreign Minister, and Husne Pasha, Minister of War. The tendencies of the new Ministry we decidedly Anglo-phile. Received December 2, 0.55 a.m. Paris, 1. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the novernment announced that a Bill was in preparation providing for the establishment of a French Protectorate over Tonquin, the northern division of the empire of A mam. Cairo, November 30. A report is current : here that the" trial of Arabi and other rebels will be entirely dropped, and that the p'repa- _ rations which have been in progress for. sometime past are at a stand still. The Fgyptian Government has received a communication from. the British Ambassador stating that the English Government decline^ to recognise Baker Pasha as commander in chief of the Fgyptian army. fe Sydney, December L . In the cricket match the N. 8. W. ' leven in the first inning? made 152 The 'nglishmen lost 1 wicket for 30 runt. Received December 3, 11 a.m. M lbourNk, aturday 755 p.m. A shocking railway accident occurred at 6. 30 this evening, on the Melbourne and Hawthorne railway. A special train was returning from a land sale at '-ox. hill and passed Hawthorne station without stopping, and when it had turned the corner of Richmond park it came into violent collision with a train from Melbourne to Hawthorne (sic 1 ) travelling on the same line of rails at a speed of twenty miles an hour. The engine of the Melbourne train . was driven through a first class carrjage next to it which it completely telescoped, the engine penetrating, the greater portion of the vehicle. The second and third carriages of the Hawthorne train were likewise telescoped, the wheels of one carriage resting on the seats of the other. There were many passengers in the train at the time of the collision. Twenty to thirty are injured. Several very badly, and in the case of some it is deemed hopeless, so far as is at present known, however none were killed outright ■