Cable News.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6263, 26 September 1891, Page 4

Cable News.

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Loudon, September 24

A banquet is to be given at the Junior Carlton Club by a number of colonists and leading engineers to Mr Eddy Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales railways, who is on a visit to England. Sir Frauds Dillon Bell declined a farewell banquet which the Agents-General wished to offer him on the occasion of his retirement.

Professor Vambery, the Eastern traveller and authority upon questions connected with Central Asia, declares that Russia is advancing her frontier in Asia despite the Rußso-Afghan treaty, and it was only Captain Younghusband's promptitude that prevented the Russians occupying Gilghit.

St. Pktkesbueo, September 24. It is reported that the peasants of Nijni Novgorod are eating children, The inhabitants of several villages in the province of Astrakhan are dying of want.

The Siberian convicts have revolted against the inhuman treatment to which they are subjected and the putrid food supplied to them. It is reported that tbo Russian loan will be partly subscribed in Germany. Madeid, September 24. By a railway sollision at Burgos, in Northern Spain, fourteen persons were killed and twenty-four wounded. Later. The list of those killed in the railway accident at Burgos has Iswollen to twentyfour. Among the number are Seymour Lucas, A.R.A., the painter, and several Spanish noblemen and Englishmen. Paeis, September 24. Le Siocle urges that a heavy tax should be imposed on foreigners in the hope of preventing Germans entering France. Vienna, September 24. Marie Wilt, the singer, jumped from a fourth story window in Vienna, and was killed. Melbourne, September 25. The Marine Court found the captain of the barque Fiji, whioh was wrecked with considerable loss of life on the Viotorian coast, guilty of gross misconduct, and suspended his certificate for twelve months.

[DELATED WIEES.j London, September 23. Mr Justin McCarthy ia appealing for funds in aid of evicted tenants. The hop harvest is improving. , September 24. Lord Lytton will shortly retire from the post of British Ambassador at Paris. The Daily Telegraph says the huge hive of China is swarming, and the Australian colonies are menaced.

Ottawa, September 22. Mr J. G. Haggart, Postmaster-General of Canada, is accused of having made a profit out of Government contracts. M. Mercier's defence is that the Government of Quebec, of -which he is head, -were igoorant of Picaud's extortions. The bountiful harvest is adding a sum estimated at 13 millions sterling to the wealth of Canada. Beblin, September 23. The German press strongly objects to Russia augmenting her troops on the frontier. The Czar has arranged to meet the Kaiser at Dundamunde on October 14. Rome, Septembev 23. The Marquis di Rudini, Premier of Italy, has despatched the text of the new Triple Alliance to Lord Salisbury by a special officer. The Pope is forming workshops in Rome. St. Petbbsbubg, September 23. The inhabitants of Suratoff, an important town on the Volga, have petitioned Government to prohibit the export of oats and millet. Washington, September 23. Serious forest fires are raging in Minnesota. The town of Finlayson is destroyed, and other small places threatened. Hong Kong, September 23. Foreigners in.Foochow are alarmed for their safety.