LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1212, 25 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

4. (per reuter's agency.) Eeceived December 23, 12.30 p.m. London, 22. Intelligence is to hand that a severe storm has been experienced at Styplm, on the New-foundland coast. The gale raged for fully two days, and resulted in thirty-five wrecks, and some loss of life. There are now unmistakable signs of distress in Ireland, owing to the failures of the potato crops. Hun- ! dreds of the poorer classes are already snffering from great destitution, and it is feared that the distress will increase. Paths, 22. Krapotkine, one of the leaders of the Socialist movement has been arrested at Lyons, and is now detained in prison. The barque Asherope, bound from London to Melborwne, has put into Plymouth, having snflered damage from collision with another vessel. Melbourne, 23. Mauritius advices to December Gth report at that date shipments were ready as follows : — Dunedin, 200 tons sugar; Lyttellton, 150 tons. Eeceived Dec. 22, 10 p.m. Melbourne, 22, Subscriptions for the widows and orphans of the miners who lo3t their lives at Creswick now amount to £16,750. Sydney, 22. The party of astronomers who were stationed at Lord Howe's Inland, off the coast of this Colony, arrived here to-day. They did not succeed in their intended observations of the transit of Venus. Alexandria, 21. General Sir Evelyn Wood, who has accepted the position of Commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army, arrived here to-day. The statement that Mr Bradiff had resumed his former position as Con-troller-General of Egyptian finance, is now authortatively denied. Pa™, 21, The French Government has dofinitely decided to equip an expedition to Tonquiu for the establishment of a French Protectorate over that place, and it is announced that a vote of credit to defray the expense of the expedition, of eleven million francs, will be proposed instead of nine millions, as stated by Mr Duelerc in the Chamber of Deputies on the 9th inst. Berlin, 21. It has transpired that measures will shortly be aoapfced for increasing the pfU'visoii on the eastern frontier of the Empire. Additional barracks are to bo erected and railway extension will be rapidly earned on. Eeceived Dec. 23, 0.50 a.m. Melbourne, 22. A fresh outbreak of water occurred to-day in the Australasian mine, at Creswick. Six men who were at work underground at the time escaped, some however, with considerable di faculty. Capetown 21. Telegrams are to hand from dctermoretzburg announcing that all arrangements for the rciuHtatt raont of Cetewayo as King of the Zulu trib •■ have been completed. Accompli: cu by British ofiiccrr?, who will ako part in the eerenion in 1 of installation, the Kin.'i, on his arrival in Zululaml, will bo escorted by a strong detachment of

j British troops. Cetcwayo set out for j his capital from Peterniotu'etzburg I to-day. Berlin 21. A serious accident has occurred in Westphalia whereby twenty-live men ! lost their lives. The rope attached to a cage in which miners were being brought up to the surface broke and the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. Received Dec. 24, 11 a.m. Adelaide 23. The South Australian wool clip for present season is valued at £1.000,000, being a decrease of £114,000 compared with last year. London' 21. A prosecution has been initiated against Biggar, M.P,, in consequence of a speech which he recently made Earl Spencer, Viceroy of IrtLind. Rome 22. A popular demonstration occurred to-day in thin city arising! out of the recent execution at Trieste of a man named Overdank, who was arrested in September last with Orsiiji bombs in his possession, and was found to be implicated in a plot (sa^d to be of Italian oiigiu) against tlie life of the Emperor of Austria. The demonstration was of a strong anti- Austrian j character and culm hi ited in an nttack ; upon several Austrian residents. ■ Similar disturbances have also occurred ' at Milan, Trieste, where and- Austrian feeling was warmly manifested. BEttLix 22. The North Gorman Gazette pub- ; lished an article io-dav in which it is | affirmed that Prince Bismarck is the j staunchest advocate cf friendship between Germany and Btissin, and is in no way desirous of disturbing the relations between the two empires. j