CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4811, 11 January 1887, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION SPECIALS.—COPYRIGHT.]

London, January 10. The relations between Russia and Austria have improved.

Russia is disposed to abandon her desire for the election of Princo Nicholas of Mingrclia, and will favor the election of Prince Nicholas of Lemuhtenberg, whom the Bulgarians are willing to accept. Another rising in Crete is feared. The Admiralty have decided to build fast cruisers.

[renter's telegrams—copyright.]

London, January 10,

The death is announced of Sergeant Ballantyne, the well-known barrister, aged 72 In the recent communications which passed between England, France, and Turkey regarding a settlement of the Egyptian question, tho French and Ottoman Governments have been less persistent than fovmerlj in their representations. It is" announced from Vienna that the relations between Austria and Russia are now daily improving. Prince George Lenchtenbey, an officer in the Russian army, is now mentioned as a probable candidate for the throne of Bulgaria in place of Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia. Paris, January 9. The Bulgarian deputation had an unofficial interview to-day with- M. Fleurens, who expressed sympathy with the troubles of Bulgaria, but urged the deputation to hearken to the wishes of Russia and withdraw the aemands whioh were displeasing to that country. Sydney, January 10. An unusual commotion on the sea has been observed at various points on the coast. The weather generally being culm it is regarded as betokening some extraordinary disturbance. Maloiie, sprint runner, has challenged Hutchins, the English pedestrian, who is now in Sydney, to run a quarter of a mile race. Intense heat has prevailed throughout Riverina for the last few days, and an extensive bush fire ie rag-ing- in the neighborhood of the township of Toouinwal, on the I Murray. . This day. A girl, aged seventeen, recently reported to the police that on the 20th December, while proceeding home along Cook's Riverroad, she was sot upon by a number of men, who dragged hor into an omnibusshed, where she was criminally assaulted by seven of them.- Tho police last night arrested five *mon on tho charge of committing the outrage. Melbourne, January 10. The small-pox patients at the quarantine station are progressing favorably. It is hoped that the more serious cases will recover.

The heat throughout Australia has been unprecedented. Two fatal cases of sunstroke occurred in Melbourne to-day.