LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1626, 13 November 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

BY KLHUTIIIU ft ( .Kii .Ai'il— C I'VIIIOIIT. Received November 12, 1.15 a.m. Sydney, 11. The statements made l.y the Maiays that the members of tho Geographical Society's expcthtioM to NV«w (Guinea had been massicred by Fly River natives are received with caution. Further news is anxiously awaited from New Guinea. Tiie Government and Oppositi m have taken a piivate censure of their respective supporters. Both political parlies now claim to have a working majority in the Legislative, AssemMy. Melbourne, 11. The police, actiuw on information from New Zealand, arrested a man named Bland, charged with embezzling over a thousand pounds from his employers, Messrs Stewart Dawaoii, and Co., jewellers, Dunedm. Prisoner was Itrou^ht up to-day for examination and remanded for a week. London. 11. It is rumored that owiu;( to the heavy drain caused l>y the despatch of troops for service in E^ypt and in India it has been decided by the War Offi.-e to augment the British army ny 10 Mattalion*. Mi C. S. Parnell.addres'M;i a public j meotiuir at L'Wrpool last liii^lif, imde an appeal to Mr'-'GU ■■Utone to s'tbiuit to tite electors some solhmi'" of government for lielaud which shoild Vie com'antd witli the maintenance of the unity of the Empire. Received November 12, 1 p.m. . Mkldodhn-- !2. The Fedwrol' Bill Enabling was read a tirst time in the Legislative Council yesterday. A telegram lias heen received from Cook town which tends to confirm the truth of the report concerning the massacre in New Guinea of the New South Wales Geographical expedition. The. message says the camp was surprised during the night, al>out 137 miles np the Fly River, and the party slaughtered by an overwhelming force of natives.