CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 9833, 23 October 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

It is reported at Berlin that the Czar wishes to meet the Emperors of Germany and Austria after his coronation.

The reforms in Armenia are largely a reiteration of existing laws, applicable to Christians and Moslems, plus European control.,. The guarantee of the latter is regarded as weak. Fettin Bey has been appointed Shakir Pasha’s lieutenant. The French Budget proposes a loan of 100,000,000fr for the purpose of developing Tonkin, also a railway loan. Tbp.Pope, writing to Don Carlos, King of Portugal, regrets the latter’s intention to visit King Humbert at Romo, and considers it a personal affront, undeserved after the sympathy shown.to Portugal. The journey has, been abandoned by the King. The Quirinal is indignant, and relations are strained.

Austrian Field-marshal Andelsbams, a retired officer of seventy-two years of age, who wa? ruined by losses sustained by bad investments, shot bis wife and then committed suicide.. Two hundred and sixty houses have been destroyed by. fire in New Orleans, and 700 people rendered homeless by forest fires in Minnesota, Dakota, and! Manitoba.

Many American newspapers warn Great Britain to respect the “ Monroe doctrine.” The Crown Law Department of Victoria has become possessed of information which contains startling allegations of benchpacking and bribety, and that Chinese gamblers had organised to protect themselves, and by bribery had minimised punishment. One Celestial swears that he was present at a meeting where £2O was subscribed to bribe a justice of the peace. Mr Greenaway, the actor, was recently charged at Sydney with the larceny of £3 from Greenwood, of Auckland. The defence was that the money was obtained as a week’s salary in advance on an engagement made with prosecutor for a tour of New Zealand, Accused and his wife alleged that the whole thing was the outcome of malice. The magistrate decided to cable to the New Zealand police to see whether the money was sent as salary, and intimated that if that were so be would release the accused.