Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5965, 18 October 1890, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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London, October 17. Mr Gladstone, in un article contributed to the Jewish World, states that if the edicts said to bo issued by the Russian Government against the Jows are proved to bo correct, ho will urge that steps be taken to rouse the conscience! of Europe against tho tyrannical action of Russia.

The British South African Company have ojncludcd a. treaty with the natives for the cessiou of tho Manisia Country. Portugal claims to have a protectorate over thin territory. Messrs O'Brieu and Dillon wail for America on tho 2oth, and state that they uxpuot to raise £100,000 in aid of the Laud League. Sydney, October 17. Tremendous bush fires are raging at Lisiaoro, an agricultural district situated on tho north arm of tho Richmond river about 520 miles north of Syduev. Vast tracts of territory Lava been devastated, and the township of Chines is in danger. Tho inhabitants of the last-mentioued place are out fighting tho names. Ac tho enquiry into the cxtensiAo fire which broke out in the premises of Messrs (Jiblis, Shiillard and Co. on tho Ist inst. tho supcrintendoni, of the fire brigade in his evidonco expressed the opinion that the present water mains in tho city aro inadequate to cope with any serious fire.