CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8668, 10 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The famine among the Russian peasantry is increasing.

Mr. Hercules Robinson, jun., is betrothed to the third daughter of Lord Castlemaine.

The Metropolitan Railway Company have offered to adopt the Gibson link, a colonial invention.

The attendance at the London Board schools under the free education system already shows an increase of '28,000.

General Gallifet watched the manoeuvres of the French troops from a balloon, and directed their movements by telephone.

The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has recovered sufficiently to be ablo to leave his house. He spent half-an-hour in his garden today. It is reported that Moaars. Oppenheim have arranged to float a three million loan for the Transvaal at a minimum of 8 per cent. Further disturbances are reported from the Caroline Islands. The Spanish troops suffered heavily in an encounter with natives. ' Major Lovett, of Adelaide, has distinguished himself by a gallant rescue of a drowning lad who had fallen into the Thames. It is now reported in Paris that Campel, the leader of the Lake Tchad expedition, was murdered by his own troops owing to his roughness. The English Niger expedition has passed Soltoto, the capital of Houssa States, and is believed to have reached Lake Tchad, in Central Africa. A female parachutist fell from a height of 5000 feet into Lake Peoria, at Illinois. She was rescued alive, but it is not expected she will recover from the shock. At the Oriental Congress Professor Sterndal read a paper on Asiatic architecture and migration in the Pacific Ocean, and Commissioner Fuller on the Fijian language. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the criticisms of Australians that have been published recently, says that tho colonies have conquered great difficulties, and their brilliant success is. one of the wonders of a century prolific in marvels.