CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8669, 11 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Queen of Roumania is worse.

China has appointed a Consul at Singapore. The Corunna Corporation, Spain, has suspended payment. Parnell refuses to attend the Chicago Convention in October. M. Julfes „ Grovy, ex-President of the French Republic, aged SI, is dead. The Chilian, cruiser President Pinto has arrived at Copenhagen from Kiel. Three gendarmes were killed in rescuing some kidnapped Jews in Bablaski, Turkey. Lord Sheffield's cricket team play a match at Colombo on the way out to Australia.

Mails from Japan have arrived ab London in 19 days 10£ hours via the Canadian Pacific.

Many lives have been lost by disastrous floods in the mountainous province of Styria. The Supreme Court of America has decided that pauper Jews must return to Europe". The Pope has ordered accommodation to be prepared in the Vatican for 2200 French pilgrims. The Pope has issued a pastoral exhorting tho Polish Roman Catholics to exhibit devotion to the Czar.

Mr. Tom Mann, who was offered the secretaryship of the Engineers' Union, has declined the position. Trials of the new explosive at Liege have been successful, giving 35 per cent, more power than any others. Four hundred senators and deputies from different countries will take part in the Peace Congress at Rome. Cholera is raging at Aleppo and Anitab, in Syria, and is spreading west. Two thousand deaths are reported daily. Several thousand men at Easton Steel Works, Middlesboro, have been thrown oub of work owing to scarcity of orders. Two hundred and sixty competed in a bicycle race between Paris and Brest, the winner averaging nearly 14 miles an hour. The eldest son of Sir Samuel Wilson, of Victoria, is engaged to the youngest daughter of the late Duke of Marlborough, A severe cyclone has passed over Halifax, Novia Scotia, wrecking the town and shipping. The damage is estimated at £12,000. 'A sensation is caused in Madrid by the the formation of a new army corps. It is understood that the reason is due to serious local rioting. A seminary for Roman Catholic priests' has been opened in Surrey, being the first) establishment of the kind" in England since the Reformation.

Owing to the cholera al) Aloppo, vessels from Egypt are ordered into quarantine ab Smyrna. The plague is expected to extend into Europe. Germany has been officially inquiring into the Canadian rye crops, and the Government have been informed that 2,000,000 bushels are available for export. The Fkrnellites only succeeded in obtaining £3000 towards establishing a daily paper. They will therefore start an evening paper instead of a morning. Evans, champion billiard player of Australia, defeated Roberts in a 2000 game, ab Adelaide, in which the latter conceded 1000 points, and Evans won by 148. Steps are being taken at New York to convene a conference to establish an International Bureau for exchange of intelligence relating to mercantile failures. It is rumoured that the French contract) for the Russian loan provides for the transfer of seven million pounds worth of gold from Paris to St. Petersberg by the end of the year. The ship's company and passengers of the steamer Manapouri, from the Bluff, ab Hobarb, have presented Captain Logan with a testimonial expressing their confidence and esteem.

The consensus of opinion in Melbourne of the witnesses examined ab the Marine Board's inquiry into the collision between . the steamers Easby and Gambier is that the Eai?by did nob at once send a boat to the assistance of the sinking ship. Captain Prideaux, of the Easby, in his evidence before the Marine Board, said he regarded his ship as crossing the vessel, and acted accordingly. Within two minutes after the collision a boat was lowered to ascertain what damage the Gambier had suffered.