LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1336, 14 December 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

*__ — ■— (per reuter's agency. ) (Eeceived Dec. 11, 10 p.m.) •..■-•*.•■■"' Melbourne, 11. Arrived —P. and 0. steamship Shannon, with the'; inward Suez mails, dated London, November 2nd. • London:, 10. It is officially auooiinced that Alfred Tennyson, poet, laWeat, has been raised to the peerage, with the title of Baron. --'A Surgeon-General. *Sir J. C. Brown, X.C.8., Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, and Professor J. Lister, Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Majesty, have been creaied Baronets. Tenders for the Tinaaru Harbor Board Loan of £100,000, which opened to-day, ranged from £98 to £101. (Eeceived Dec. 12, 11.40 a.m.) London, ll. Barry, Bishop elect of Sydney, New South Wales, was entertained at a banquet at Worcester last evening. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General in London for New South Wales, was among the guests. Paris, 10. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a debate took place upon the Tonquin policy of the Government, at the conclusion of which votes of credit and of confidence in the Government; were passed by large majorities. In the course of his speech Ferry declared that the Government was firmly resolved to follow up their present line of policy, and push operations without delay. (Eeceived Dec. 12th, noon.) Sydney, 12. Arrived — Hauroto, from Wellington In the Legislative Assembly last night, under a motion for adjournment, a debate took place regarding the recent Intercolonial Conference Mnch bitter feeling was expressed by various speakers towards the Victorian delegates, owing to the recent speeches of the latter at Melbourne. Keceived Dec. 12, 4.30 p.m. ' London, ll. To-day's Gazette contains an order announcing tkat the degrees conferred by the University of New Zealand will be recognised in England and throughout the British Colonies. Cairo, 11. Arab liillmen are mustering in large numbers in the neighborhood of Sonaldm, and it is expected they will make a night attack upon the garrison and town. H.M. gun vessel Ranger, now cruising off the coast, is attacking the rebels with rocket fire, with a view of preventing their approach against the town. Budda-Pestit, 11. At to-day's sitting of the Hungarian House of Magnetes, a Bill for legalising the intermarriage of members of the Christian and Jewish faith was thrown out. Melbourne, 12. ' Sailed — Hotomahana, for Bluff. Calcutta, 11. The various courts at the International Exhibition are now nearly completed. The exhibition is a great success. Ninety thousand persons have already been admitted, and the number of visitors is increasing daily, ]

Received Dec. 13, 1 a. in. London, 12. A meeting of members of the Irish National League took place at Dublin yesterday, when Parnell received a j tribute of various branches of the j League to the amount of £38,Q1'0. In the course of his address to the meeting Parnell made a bitter and vehement attack upon Earl* Spencer, Viceroy, and Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland. Parnell, however, expressed full confidence in the ultimate success of the cause. At a meeting at the Colonial Institute* last evening the Marquis of Lome, referring to the question of Federation, suggested (hat a Council of .Colonial envoys should assemble in London to discuss Parliamentary measures which should be adopted with the view of establishing a Federated Empire.