LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1636, 7 December 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

» BY EI.KCTIMO THI.KUH.VH— COPYRIGHT . Received December 4, 9.40 p.m. Calcutta, 3. King Theebaw, together with the Queeu and some other members of his household, have arrived at Thnjetnngo, in the Peqn district of British Burinah. whore they are detained as prisoners. Svdxet, 4. Sailed this morning — Slauruto for New Zealand ports. It is understood!, the Premier, Mr Dibbs, will iutro^ce his financial budget in the Legigjitive Assembly on Tuesday week, Decipher 14th. Received Dtceibfr 5, 1 a.m. New Zealand wheat, 3/4 per hnshel ; ditto oats, 2/2 ; maize, 561bs, 4/ ; sugar, Co., No. 1, £26 per ton. London, 4. The latest returns show that 2C3 Liberals, 213 Conservatives, and 54 Parnellites have been returned up to tho present. Mr Joseph Chamberlain addressed a public meeting at Leicester last evening. In the course of his speech he referred to th»> probable state of parties iv the new Parliament, and predicted that fiesh elections would take plaoe at no distant date after the assemblage of Pai -liuineut. Calcutta, 4. Intelligence from Mandahiy announces that a lartje number of Dawits made a raid upon that place yesterday. TJi« British troops were taken at a disadvantage, and in the fighting which ensued many British officers and men were killed and wounded. Received December 5, 1.15 p.m. London, 4. The total number of members elected np to the present is 600. The Liberals have a majority over the Conservatives of 54. Cairo, 4. The natives of . Upper Ejjypt are renewing hostile deiauUdUaiious. Yesterday they destroyed a mile of railway line between Wad y Haifa and Akasheh, near the second cataract of the Nil". Received December 5, 9. 15 p ny , „._ Sydney, 5. H.il.S. NelgoTi fciijn for New Zealand to-f?av. On the motion of &ir John Robertson, the Legislative Assent My has «d jonrncd until the 9|h inst. in -order to prevent Government fioin proceed insf with business.