HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8610, 2 September 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(St Electric Tbxkgbaeh.—Copybigh.. . fPsa Pbißß Aa&aunov.) SALE OF*"!" WRECK, LONDON, September 1, (Received September 2,1891, at 10.16 a.m.) Cargo to the value of L 2.000 has been saved from the steamer Wallarah, wrecked on D&sen Island. The vessel and the remainder of her cargo were sold by auction forL2,ooo. IRISH AFFAIRS. DUBLIN, September 1. Lord Lansdowne'a tenants, who resisted payment of rent under the Plan of CamEaign, are asking for a settlement with the tndlord. LONDON, September 1. Mr Parnell's demands include the release of the dynamiters. He made a violent speech against Sir W. V. Hareourt, AN ORIENTAL CONGRESS. LONDON, September 1. The Congress of Orientalists has opened in the Middle Temple. THE TROUBLE IN CHINA. LONDON, September 1, The Paris correspondent of • The Times' states that the Russian Government have received news that the mother of the Emperor of China is direoting the anti-foreign movement with the object of expelling all Europeans from China. TROUBLE IN UPPER EGYPT. CAIRO, September 1. The dervishes are again making headway in some force. A body ol them ore approachins; Saras.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. WASHINGTON, September 1. An express train waa thrown off the rails near Troy, in Indiana. Six persons were killed and forty injured.

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FAMINE IN RUSSIA. LONDON, September 1. (Reoelved September 2,1891, at 8 a.m.)

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the ' Daily Chronicle' Btates that railways leading from the frontier to the Baltic Sea are blocked with rye, but the offioialsare in receipt of seoret orders to delay their transmission until the price has fallen. The condition of the peasantry in the western districts is reported to be terrible, and that several hundred million roubles will be required for relief purposes.

THE EUROPEAN FOOD SUPPLIES. VIENNA, September 1. The grain market is firm and realising fair prices, Omoial reports of the world's supply are Stimistic. The surplus of wheat in Austroingary is given as four million quintals. THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALASIA. LONDON, September 1. (Received September 2,1891, at 10.86 m.j 'The Times' is publishing a series of artioles on the resources of Australia. In a leader commenting on the facts disclosed in these articles, it says that the results have never been exoeeded in the same space of time, and urges the colonies to take no heed of pessimists. Courage and enterprise have worked magic, and the oolonies have established a marvellous record. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LONDON, September 1. Ten men were killed by the colliery explosion at Bedminater. MORE UNFRIENDLY CRITICISM. LONDON, September 1. Mr Francia Adams, an Australian journalist, in an article in the ' Fortnightly Review' on ' Social Life in Australia,' says that native-born colonials are of a highstrung temperament, alternately displaying languor and activity, somewhat tainted with cruelty. He describes Melbourne as Pagan, while convictiam is not yet extinct in Sydney. He asserts that the 'Sydney Bulletin' is a terror to the opulent class. THE FINANCES OF URUGUAY. LONDON, September 1. At a meeting in London of foreign holders of Uruguay bonds, it waß agreed to issue a per cent, loan of twenty millions sterling, for the purposes of conversion and consolidation of the external debt, BICYCLES IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY. ST. PETERSBURG, September 1. The Russian military authorities are forming bicycle oorps. RUSSIAN PAPER CURRENCY. ST. PETERSBURG, September 1. The Bank of Russia have been authorised to issue 25,000,000 roubles worth of oredit notes. A PHILANTHROPIC EMPLOYER. BERLIN, September 1. Baron Yon Sturm, one of the largest employers in Germany, has given his men a substantial increase in wages and pensions, to meet the inoreased prices of food. ECCLESIASTICAL. LONDON, September 1. Rev, Mr Bowllay, of Birmingham, has been appointed Bishop Suffragan of Coventry. FLOODS IN IRELAND. LONDON, September 1. Gales are raging in Ireland, and in some districts the crops are several feet under water.