CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8663, 4 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Gkrmany is arranging to float a loan. General Booth has sailed from Capetown for Australia. The tramway men of Paris are going oab on strike again. Mails are now carried from Japan to New York in 13 days. A new cable has been laid from the United States to Brazil. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has passed tho acute stage of his disease. By a lire at stables in Ayr, nine racehorses were burned to death. It is intended to raise an Indian regiment to garrison Hongkong. Jewish emigrants to Palestine are returning to Odessa in a destitute condition. Seven thousand Russian Jews have left for England, the United States, and Australia. The River Barrow, in Leinster, has overflowed its banks, and submerged thousands of acres. The Argentine press is hostile to Baron Hirsch's project for settling refugee Jews in the country. The head of one of the Paris public de-: partments has been arrested, and charged • with stealing £40,000. The German Emperor has left for Austria, to attend tho military manoeuvres. He was accorded an enthusiastic welcome along the route. The Queen will pay a visit to the German Emperor at Stolzenfels, on the Rhine, next spring. She was entertained there by the King of Prussia in 1845. Russia is purchasing .Suez Canal bonds, with the view of strengthening French influence, and is also numerously increasing the issue of paper roubles. The English Drapers' Union invite tho Trades Union Congress to support tho State Board of Arbitration with equal representation of capital and labour. . The entire herd of pedigree shorthorn cattle, the property of Mr. Per kin Moore, of Cumberland, has been destroyed owinp ' to their suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. A re-count of votes has resulted in the upsetting of the election of Mr. J. Wheeler, for Canterbury (New South Wales), just as he was on the point' of being declared elected. ' . ■■