NEWS BY CABLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7368, 16 November 1898, Page 1

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ) (PER UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Received November 15, at 9.10 p.m. London, November 14. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company has constructed cold air stores on the Manchester ship canal, for supplying the midland and northern counties. It is i hoped that the Company will be able to run I an" independent steamship line to the colonies. Smelting works are being erected at Ellesmere, a port on the Manchester ship canalj near the mouth of the Mersey. It is hoped that there will be a large demand for Australian ores. Claude Vun r in is being adjudicated a bankrupt. His liabilities are L 69.785. Washington, November 14. Mr Long, Secretary to the Navy, is mobilising warships, pending the decision of Spain with regard to the Philippines. An American-European company, with a capital of four hundred million dollars, propose to lease the Philippines from whoever is declared the owners of the group, and make Prince Henry of Prussia the Governor Received November 15, at 10.45 p.m. Geneva, November 15. Luccheni has appealed against his sentence. Bombay, November 15. The bubonic plague is increasing in the towns of Dharra and Bangalore. Received November 16, at 0.25 a.m. Washington, November 15. The Philippine insurgents have blockaded Iloilo, an important town of the Island of Panay. The residents have appealed to the commander of the American forces for assistance. Seven thousand of the Spanish forces surrounded General Blanco's palace, atHava»a, clamoring for arrears of pay. General Blanco telegraphed to Madrid for ihirty million pesetas, and pacified the Boldiers for a time. He arrested the ringleaders, and placed cannon iu the streets of the city, manned by picked troops. American war ships will probably be sent :to Havana. Paris, November 15. There was a turbulent scene in the French Chamber. The Sooialiat deputies denounced M. Dupny for prosecuting M. Gohier, the author of the boob in which attacks are made on the Army. The Socialists and anti-Semitic members came to blows. London, November 15. Hooley asserts that Marrintb suggested his purchasing a baronetcy, asking Lilo,ooo remuneration if the negotiations were successful. Marriott declares that he always said the offer to purchase a baronetcy was useless. Hooley says that Bradley received i.150,000 for the purposes of advertising and Press manipulations, of which he retained LBO,OOO. Vancouver, November 15. A fire in Dawson City, Klondyke goldfields, destroyed all the business portion of the town. Berlin, November 15. Germany has largely increased her army in the field. Cairo, November 15. The Belgian forces have routed the Dervishes at Ber, on the Bahr el Jebel, some distance south of Fashoda. Madrid, November 15. Senor Sagasta is making desperate eftorts to raise L 450,000 to liquidate the arrears of pay of the army in Cuba. Received November 16, at 9.12 a.m. London, October 15. Lord Kitchener will return to Khartoum in December for the purpose organising the defence of all the Soudan. The Duke of Westminster, in a speech, said that after the Sultan's complicity in the murder of a hundred thousand subjects it was deplorable that the Emperor of Germany should have accepted the hospitality of a monarch who was outside the pale of civilisation. Paris, November 15. The French and Germans are active in exploring Lake Tchad region, Central Africa. A scheme for the construction of a railway from Algiers to Lake Tchad is being promoted in Paris. Received November 16, at 9.20 a.m. Berlin, November 15.

The editor of the German paper Vorwaerts, an Austrian named Cenng, has been expelled from Germany for writing insultingly of the Emperor. Paris, November 15.

The northern express dashed into a workman's train at Paris. Two carriages of the express were smashed. Twenty-two passengers were injured. London, November 15

Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, addressed a meeting on the question of despatching an expedition to the Antarctic. He appealed to the nation for funds. Professor Foster, Secretary of the Society, endorsed these views. Professor Rucker urged that common action be taken with Germany in the matter. Sir Joseph Hooker supported this and suggested that appeals be made to the colonial Governments. Sir Wm. Wharton, hydrographer of the navy, expressed a hope that a small private expedition would be sent out as a pioneer for a more important undertaking by. the Government. The Times urges millionaires to respond to the appeal for funds.