LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1300, 21 September 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(per reuter's agency. ) " (Received Sept. 19, 7.45 p.m.) Melbourne, %9. ■ A daring and unaccountable robbery has been perpetrated at the Commercial Bank of Australasia, in this city. " Sixteen bars of gold were deposited in |- a safe last night by Pennock, the ' manager of the branch Bank at Bali la vat, who took possession of one of i, the keys of the safe, another i officer of the Bank keeping the second 1 1 key. It was noticed; this morning ' that the key-hole of the safe was obstructed, and on opening the safe it [• was found that fourteen of the bars of , gold were missing, besides £1000 in notes and gold coin. No clue to the robbery has yet been discovered. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters* Association, dated London, September 18th : — Arrived — The ships Duke of Athole, from Lyttelton, May 29th; Firth of Olua, from Lyttelton, June 15 th. , -^ . . London, 19. „ News has been received from the West coast of Africa that tribal hostili- | ties have again broken out in Ashantee. A severe battle has been fought at Cooroassie, resulting in the defeat of 1 the adherents of King Calcalli, who suffered great slaughter, and have been compelled to retreat from the capital towards the countiy occupied by the i Gamans, one of the tribes who are opposed to the King. '! Eeceived September 20, 1*15 a.m. Copenhagen, 18. The Czar of Eussia and l< ing Christian were entertained to-day at lunch by Gladstone on t ; bqard.-- his > yacht. Gladstone sailed la^e in the day for the coast of Norway. Lovdon 19. The Daily Yews, in its issue of this morning, publishes an article strongly urging the British Government to take steps to exclude French convicts from the Australian Colonies. Sydney, 19. The probate on the will of the late Archbishop Vaughan was granted today, the property being sworn at £61,328. A large -attendance is expected at St. Marys Cathedral to-morrow, when Bishop Eedwood will deliver a panegyric upon deceased prelate. Melbourne," 19. Nothing further has transpired regarding the robbery of the Commercial Bank of Australasia last night. The stolen notes are useless, having been cancelled. In the Legislative Assembly this evening James Service, Premier, io replying to a question, took occasion to remark that Lord Derby completely failed to appreciate the importance, to - Australia of the deportation of French convicts to the Pacific Islands. He declared that if England permitted this deportation the Colonies would themselves be obliged to devise means for preventing convicts landing on their shores. He considered that the French proposal to populate the Pacific Islands with criminals from French cities contrary to acknowledged principles of international comity, and justified abrogation of any agreement between the English and '

Frei c*i (Toyernmeuts with regard to those Islands. 1 <£ r A jdefbate^ on thesquestion 6nißupd, ] fcfifl. oil the anotiqiv-Vfof adjournment s iyiiriojipjspekKers unanimously declared ' ipat Bu|b calamity; niast be^verted . „']s[ -/;■;;:. /*;'?VvV-tf- '' SE^vet%ep^M^ v i%^^,Jv ' « -Arrived,- this morning— -Te ,.j\nan, from Bluff. I ' K6 clue has yet been o,biaine:d as to the perpetrator of the robbery at the -Gonvuiercial Bank. -It now- transpires that no sovereigns,;but.ionly bai* gold and notes were stolen. The theft appears to have been most skilfully effected. : ... .. Sydney, 20. ? Sailed, " yesterday aftei-noon^-The steamship Wakatipu, for Wellington. Arrived, this morning — Hauroto, from Wellington. Brisbane, 20. The emigrants by the steamship Duke of Westminster have been placed in quarantine for small -pox. They , are to be .released on Monday next. '" -■' ,