LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1209, 18 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

__ <- (peu reuter's agency.) Received December 16, 1-20 p.m. London, 15. Several large failures are reported in the tin plate trade, the liabili ies in some cases being extensive. William Westgate, who confessed to participation m the Phoenix Park murder of last May, has arrived at Plymouth, from Jamaica. He is apparently in an imbecile state of mind. Three men who were gentoncod to death for tho murder of the Joyce family at Madonsliasshin, Ciumomarn,

in August last, were executed to-day. v Paris, 15, , The proposed French expedition to Tonquin has been abandoned, owing to a division of opinion in the Cabinet j as to the necessity for the establishment of a French Protectorate over the territory. The discussion in the Cabinet has led to the resignation of Admiral Jaurgalberry, Minister of Marine. Received Dec. 16, 0*55 a.m. Berlin, 14. The North German Gazette announces in an ariicle to-day that communications have recently passed between English and the other European •Powers^regardingstihe Suez Canal, and that the British Government pi'dposes to ensure the maintenance of the neutrality of the canal by the establishment of a joint European protection. "; London 15. It is officially announced that the Right Hon. H. C. E*> Cbihjers has assumed the positionjp^ Chancellor of the Exchequer, vice Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, resigned. Received Dec. 15, 10 p.m. Sydney, 15, Sailed. — This evening. Wakatipu, for Wellington. The general election will shortly be concluded. The returns now to hand show a large majority against the Government. Melbourne, 15, The bodies of the miners who were drowned ,hi the Australasian mine at Creswick were> buriejl to-day. A subscription list has been opened in Tasmania for the relief of the widows and orphans.