LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1398, 9 May 1884, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(PER RENTER'S AGENCY..), ..■. . ■ • ; ■■''•/• Eeceived May 6, 8.80 p*m. .$ . . v Albany, 6., "a /Thte P. and 0. steamship Pai'famatta wifth inward mails via Suez and Brinddisi, dated London, April 4th arrived in King .George's Sound this morning. „ -1 y .MjSLBOTJ«NE,. 6. It been awejripined that the Oriental Bank Corporation are indebted to ten associated banks of, this Colony' to the amount of ; £50,000, of wliich £34,000 is covered by securities.' London, 6. It is announced that Michael Davitt the Irish Nationalist agitator has decided to leave the United Kingdom, and settle in Australia. Paris, 5 , The diplomatic relations between France and Morocco, which have been somewhat strain*} on several occasions since the Tunisah war, has now sustained a complete rupture, and the French Government has recalled its Minister, from Tangiers. Eeceived May 7, l.lp a,m. Melbourne, 6. E. B. Fletcher late mining Kjiapager at Sandhurst who ,was committed for* trial on March 18th, on several charges of embezzlement .-was acquitted to<lay on the first charge. The hearing of the remaining charges is still proceeding. London, 6. A report reaches here that the Grand Duke Ludwig 4th of Hesse and ' widower of the late Princess Alice, of ' Great Britain, has married the diyorced 1 wife of his former secretary to the ' Eussian Legation, at Darmstadt. ' Received May 7, 9.50 p.m. i \ r .r » -London, 6. ' • The homeward,. mails vi#, Suez and ( Brindisi, dated Melbourne, March 27, wera delivered here to-day. j Sydney, 7. ( Sailed — Hauroto, for Wellington. The excitement which has been manifested in the city since the news • * of the failure of the Oriental Bank Corporation was received here has now £ calmed down. The passengers ex steamship Borne who have been in quarantine since the * arrival of the vessel were liberated to- 1 day. c Melbourne, 7, i Ig has transpired that Jno. Ponder c M\P. : and •woUrknowu in London as ' Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph r l €Wrifcany and its branches, recently t maiieNi enquiries in this city by telegraph h regarding the prbspeats of- establishing h a bank on the.ground hitherto occupied v

by the Oriental Bank Coi-poration. Arrived — Te Anau, from Bluff. Sailed — Waihora for Bluff. Beceived May 8, 0.45 a.m. Melbourne, 7The trial of E. B. Fletcher, late mine manager at Sandhurst, on farther charges of embezzlement, was continued to-day, and again resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner. London, 7. rjHer the Q?pe|,_ left*- Darra. stadt yesterday en rotiW'tb England. In the House of Commons last night a resolution in favor of legalising marriage with deceased wife's sister was passed by a substantial majority. It has transpired that the Egyptian Government have sent a communication to the British Foreign Minister, in which it claims to have a voice in the deliberations at the projected Conference on* Egyptian affairs. Washington, 6. The Congress has rejected the Tariff Bill, in which provisions were made for a reduction to the extent of 20 per cent of the , Customs duties on numerona artidjea, 7 including wool, and VooUw* goods. . . Several heavy private bank failures have occurred in New York. The well-known firm of Grant and Co., (Baron Grant), being partners in several of the insolvent concerns. KeoeivedMay 8, 12,40 p,m. Adelaide, 8. It is rumoured that a vote of want of confidence in the Government will be moved in the House of Assembly soon after the meeting of the new Parliament^ London, 7. • Tenders for the £800,000 four per cent loan for Tasmania were opened to-day, and were found to amount to a total of two and a quarter millions. Received May 8, 4.45 p,m. ■ London, 7. For the Tasmanian loan, tenders at 100/4, will receive 17 per ceut of the allottment,. and tenders above that price in full. Intelligence has been received that I the steamship State of Florida, trading between Glasgow and America, which is several days overdue, came into collision with a barque in the Atlantic, and sank almost immediately. Of 167 souls on board, only 44 were rescued by the barque, or saved in the steamers boata