CABLE NEWS.
(SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, October 9. The Irish loyalist newspapers are condemning the supineness and timidity of the Government in suppressing the agitators of a paity defying them, and urges that strong measures are imperative and that the Executive must either work or resign. October 10. The Russian Embassy -here deny the allegation in the . French Press that the young Grand Duke Nicholas had delivered a strong an ti- German speech, in which he favored a French alliance. An impression is gaining ground that tbe Czar is the chief obstacle in the way of a Franco-Russian alliance against Germany. H.M gunboat, Wasp, is now overdue from Singapore, and it is feared she has foundered in a typhoon. Sugars of all kinds have advanced 3d to Gd per cwt owing to the estimated deficit of 125,000 tons on the beet crop. The statue of General Gordon is ready for casting, and will be erected in Trafalgar Square in March. A replica which has been ordered for Melbourne will be shipped in August.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1754, 14 October 1887, Page 2
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174CABLE NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1754, 14 October 1887, Page 2
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