CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 2952, 16 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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BOME, October 14.

French pilgrims on their way borne were greeted with savage cries at many railway stations.

BEBLIN, October 14.

A remarkable case has been before the Berlin Courts, which discloses the existence of a system of the sale and purchase of court titles and orders. Two of those implicated have been sentenced to nine and four months imprisonment.

A gold medal, subscribed for by the medioal faculty all over the world, was presented to Dr. Vircbow, the celebrated German pathologist, on the occasion of his 70th birthday yesterday.

De Giers is credited in Berlin with an attempt to detach Italy from the Triple Alliance.

The massing of Bussian troops in Bess* arabia bas decided Boumania to co-operate with Germany and Austria in stopping the passage of Buseian troops through Eoamania.

NEW YORK, October 14.

The Anohor Line Company's steamer City of Borne has been wrecked off the banks of Newfoundland. The loss of life is not known.

Later. It is a cattle steamer that is wrecked not the City of Borne.

MONTE VIDEO, October 14.

Six persons were killed and seven wounded in a popular outbreak this week; Fifty arreets were made.

SOFIA, Ootober 14.

M. Stamboloff will ask tbe Sobrianje to vote 23,000,000 francs for the purpose of fortifying Varna, Bustchok, Semendria, and Silistria.

SYDNEY, Ootober 15.

Beplying to questions as to whether the Government would communicate with the New Zealand Government with a view to effecting a reduction in tbe cable rates, Sir H. Parkes said no reduction could be made unless the colonieß agreed to renew the subsidy, which New Zealand in 1886 refused to do.

MELBOUBNE, October 15.

A dangerous feeling prevails in Pentridge | Prison owing to the institution of separate cell treatment. Some of tbe prisoners were discovered utilising gas-piping as means of communication, and were overbeard hatching a plot to murder a warder. In consequence of this discovery precautions have been taken 'by tbe gaol officials.