CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8662, 3 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

A ukavy landslip in the Tyrol is creating an immense lake. Ten men were killed by the colliery explosion at Bed minster. The export of horses from Russia will probably be forbidden. The Russian military authorities are forming a bicycle corps. A Congress of Orientalists has opened in the Middle Temple, London. Gales are raging in Ireland, and in some districts the crops are several feet under water. Rev. Mr. Ilowerly, of Birmingham, has been appointed suffragan Bishop of Coventry. Severe south-westerly gale experienced in the English Channel, and several wrecks are reported. The Italian Railway Inspector who was kidnapped by brigands in Salonica ha» x been released. The Bank of Russia has been authorised to issue twenty-five million roubles wprtl of credit notes. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company declare a dividend of 4 per cent, for the year. The Dervishes are again making head in some force in Egypt. A body of them are approaching Sarras. An express train was thrown off the rails near Troy, in Indiana. Six persons were killed and forty injured. Arrangements are being made for a good collection of English pictures to be sent to the Launceston Exhibition. The Parnell demands include release of dynamiters. He made a violent speech against Sir W. V. Harcourt. Owing to the increase in the price of grain London bakers have advanced the price of the quartern loaf a halfpenny. Loi;d Lansdowne's tenants, who resisted the payment of rent under the Plan of Campaign, are asking for a settlement with the landlord. Twelve thousand minors at Wrexham and twenty-five thousand at Chesterfield have struck, demanding weekly wages and eight hours a day. The wife and son of a Greek advocate who were kidnapped by brigands at Janina, Epirus, European Turkey, were released 01 the payment of £2000. Baron von Sturm, one of the largest) employers of labour in Germany, has given his men a substantial increase in wages and pensions to meet the increased price of food. At a meeting in London of the foreign holders of the Uruguay bonds it was agreed to issue a 34 per cent, loan of 20 millions sterling for the purposes of conversion and consolidation of the external debt. Chief Justice Way, of' South Australia, speaking at the Oriental Congress in Middle Temple, stated that Oriental studies were likely to be pursued in the Australian colonies owing to the nearness of the East, and the growing interest taken in learning .by colonists.