CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Foreigners at Tchangsha aro taking refuge in Hankow. M. Grevy died of congestion of the lungs after four days'illness. Mr. Fitzgerald, President of the Irish League in America, is dying. London masters threaten to impor foreigners to replace the carpenters. The Irish Americans aro demanding release of the funds in the Paris banks. The dry, hob weather is greatly improving the hop and wheat crops in England. England and Portugal have completed the delimitation of spheres in Manicaland. The President Pinto left Copenhagen after secretly shipping several Armstrong guns. Lord Salisbury warmly favours Sir J. Gorst's attendance at the Trades Congress. Roman Catholics of Canada desire a Papal Nuncio should be appointed for the colony. During an affray ab Heligoland between natives and German soldiers eight Were wounded. The Government of the Dominion has refused the admission of American cattle into Canada for the purposes of slaughter. The Chinese Commissioner reports that the Chinese are anxious to eradicate leprosy, and have killed several lepers in Columbia. > ' . The Queen has conferred the Albert medal, second class, on Mr. Cooper, fourth officer of the steamer Massillia, for saving the life of a Lascar in the open sea. Messrs. Alexander and Co., iron merchants, have failed. The gross liabilities are sot down ab a million and threequarters, but the deficiency is only estimated ab £44,000. ; Premier Abbott, of Canada, promises to introduce legislation making it a criminal offence for any person to attempt to influence the Government in granting coni tracts or making appointments.