CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7498, 18 October 1895, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

BEITISH AND FOREIGN. [PEB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.—OOPYBIQHT.J London, October 16. The Admiralty has granted a pension to Purgeon Lea, of the iiine;arooma, who waa dismissed by Court Martial. Mr Gladstone has published a message to the people of the United States expressing a belief that when they adopt t'reetracle they will become the greatest commercial Power in the world, and absorb 60 per cent of the whole carrying trade. The eetimited American visible supply of whe*t ie 62,900,000 busuels. Mr E. T. Doxat, chairman and managing dic6Otor of Dalgety and (Jo., has replioed the Hon. T. O. Ritohie on the Board of Shaw, Savill, and Co. October 17. The Porte has agreed to the soheme of reform demanded by the Powers, and it ie expeated that the dultan will immediately issue a deoree giving his sanction thereto. The Moslem population in the Turkish capital is very seditious and threatens to overturn the dynasty. Admiral Saott, Commandant on the Gold Coast, insists that England must ocoupy Ooomassie, and convince friendly nutives that the protection of tbe British flag is a reality. The ultimatum sent to Ashantee demands a protectorate aiid the appointment of a British Resident. Arohbiehop Walsh, in a letter to Mr Blake, M.P, suggests a convention in Dublin representing the Irish at iiome and abroad, in order to heal the dissension in the party and define its future policy. Mr Blake approves the suggestion. Vienna, October 16. A report has been published here that Russia is massing troops on the frontier of the Caucasus ready to march qpop Armenia if the British fleet appgars in the Bosphorui,