LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1535, 15 April 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

« BT ELECTRIC IKi.EGkAI'H— COPYRIGHT. (PBR REUTBB'R AORHC'Y. ) Received ' April 18, 10.20. p.m. Sydney, 13. In con sequence »f Chinese being employed working board on the Pacific ftfail Company's s.s. Zealandia, the Seameu's Union have withdrawn the crew from that vessel. ' „" . Melboubne, 13. Intelligence to hand from Geelong announces the ariest. of Mrs Beeohe and Frank Howartb, charged with the murder of Francis Beeche, farm#, at Pettavel, 10 miles from Geelong on the 20th January 1884. The /♦•male prisoner is the widow of the murdered man, and Howarth was employed as butcher on the premises. Received April 14th, 2 a. m. MiaßoufiNE, 13. Service has given an official denial to the statement that the Rotomahana had been purchased as a patrol vessel for the Australian station. Bombay. 13. The A me«r of Afghanistan left Rawal Pindi to-day for CaHul after reiterating his continned frienpship for the Government of Great Britain. London, 13. a is announced in view of the existing crisis the Admiralty have resolved on immediately reinforcing the naval eqnadrang in the Australian and other stations. | Information is to hand that the Russian Government ar« purchasin g

■wift cruisers in the Uuitod States. I London, 13. The Standard this wonting publishes a telegram from its correspondent in Central Asia dated' the 7th inrt, to the effect that the Russian troops ar« pursuing their advance along the Murgbab River. Received April 14, 1.40 p.m. Sydxbt, 14. The Dispute between the seaman's Union and the Pacific Mail Company still continues, and the Zealand ias regular crew having been withdrawn the company have put on a gang of laborers to discharge the ship but they also have been induced to leavw work. Lonjbon, 18. In the House of Comuionß to-day Gladstoue rofened to the recent negotiations between Dufferin and tho Ameer of Afghanistan as entirely satisfactory. Speaking of the recent hostilities at Penjuah, Gladstone informed the Hmsft as there was^a considerable count and that forwawaea^y Komaroff. The Government had telegraphed to Lumsden to ascertain the actual facts of the case. . Arrived — Ship Marlborongh fiom Oamaru, 3d January, with 13,500 carcasses of frozen mutton.