CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 7 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Per Electric Telegraph —Copyright COLLISION FF DOVER. DISCOVERY OF DYNAMITE FACTORIES. THE RUSSIAN FORCES. SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION

London, Doc 4

All official bulletin issued to-day anuouncos that the disease from which the CroAvn Princo of Germany is suffering shows no signs of spreading. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General for New South Wales, has been granted leave of absence, and will probably sail for Sydney at the end of the month. It is expected that Sir Samuel Cooper replaces him. Mr Loe Mullens has beon appointed manager of the London branch of the Queensland National Bank.

The Catherine, hound to Sydney oame into collision Avith the steamer Clyde during a fog off Dover. The Catherine sank, but the crew wore rescued by tho vessel. Several Nihilist and dynamito factories have boon discovered in St Petersburg, and on u seizure being made severe fighting resulted. Many arrests have boen made.

The German Reichstag have referred the question of revising tho tariff to a! committee. The corros* pondent of tho Morning Chronicle states tho proposed alterations of tho Landsturm (German Army) will incroaso tho forces by four hundred thousand.

It is reported that an enormous Russian force is stationed along the whole Austrian frontior. The report has occasioned much uneasiness,

Her Majesty has acceptod several specimens of opals discovered in Queensland.

Sir Charles Dilko, speaking at Paddington, said a closer military union with tho colonios Avould enable tho Empire to spend less on military preparations, and would possibly involve a closer political league. Obituary—The Catholic Primate of Ireland.

Tho Spectator considers that to adopt M. Pasteur’s system for remedying tho rabbit post would result in unforsoen horrors.