CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7441, 12 August 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

SOCIETY SCANDALS. PILLAGE AXD STARVATION IN ARMENIA. THE MAOEI KING'S PR, iZEN MEAT. TRADE BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND AUSTRALIA. THE SA3IOAN TREATY, SUSPICIOUS FIRE IN SYDNEY. [PKB PEBSS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.]

Lobdon, 4ugnet 10. The Lady Oowley slinder case hria b?en settled privately. Lord Salisbury has received report? that owing to Turkish rsuis ia Malori atjd Moosh in Armenia, tha sowicg of crops has been prevented and five thousand people are on the verge of sift; vaiion. A number of villages have been destroyed acd eight hundred people are said to bo living in caves, many of whom are naked and whose ooly food is leaves and green plants. Lady Frances Canning haa been committed for trial on a charge of forgiog her father's name to bills of exchange. Bhe haa admitted tha oSenoe. The ownera of the Maori King have S3ttled the c aim for damages to frozen meat, resulting from an accident to her refrigerating roaohinery in. tiydnoy in Uecember, by payiug 50 per cont of the amount.

Mr Mitchell declares that GoldsboroUgh, Mort and Co.'a scheme secures for all time the company's financial stability, and says the Victorian Ministry has promised to do all in their power to facilitate the passing of an Act to enable tho change to be made. August 11. The directors of the Manchester-Canadian Company are conferring with the agentGeneral of Victoria relative to a direct line of steamers from Au=tcalia to Manchester. In commeroi-i! circles it ia believed that the negotiations will bear fruit. ■ fcir Leonard Lyell (Liberal) has been re-eleoted for Orkney by a majority of 781.

Vanctuvee, August 10. It ia reported here that Mr J. W. Mackay, direotor of the Oanadian-Pacifio Bailway Company, and a number of San Francisco capitalists, will co-operate to lay the Pacific cable.

Beblik, August 10. The Goramn peofess to be scandalised at the Powers upholding an agreement -which is producing a state of anarchy in Samoa, and urge if the treaty be not cancelled, the natives ought to be disarmed.

L'OFIA, August 11. In an engagement between Turkish troops and Macedonian ineurgonts at Oustendil the former were victorious and the latter lost two hundred hilled.

rtYDNK-ff, August 11. Wright Bros.' boot factory has been partially gutted by fire. A large quantity of machinery and stock was destroyed, the damage is Gstitnuted at £6000. A peculiar feature of tae fire was thut while the outbreak took place ia the top fbor a distinct fire was discovered on the gronnd floor. A fireman named Lawton fell off an engine on the way to the fire and was killed.