CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8661, 2 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Indian export of wheat is the largest since 1883. Captain O'Shea is about to marry an English lady. There is a boom in American railway stocks both in London and New York. By an explosion in the Malago colliery, Bedminster, several miners lost their lives. Ayrshire cattle breeders in Victoria are forming a society for maintaining the purity of the breed. The English harvest has been suspended owing to the wet, and the crops are rotting . in the fields. The Italian Budget estimates that the expenditure for 1892 will be reduced by twenty-five million francs. Mr. Parnell demands that the Liberal® shall give a pledge to release political prisoners if they return to power. Mrs. Besant announced that since Madame Blavatsky's death she has received letters from the spirit world similar to madame's. Lord Salisbury has disallowed the ordinance forbidding shipping work on Sunday, which was passed by the Hongkong Executive. The cricket season in England is now over. Surrey has again secured the county championship with ten points out of a possible sixteen. A Conference of labour unions sitting at Leeds, representing fifty thousand men, has resolved in favour of the immediate federation of trades and labour unions. The Hon. J. Chaplain and other Tory Catholics in Canada have appealed to the) Pope against the political action of th«! national party led by M. Mercier, Premiec of Quebec.