CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8681, 25 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Popo is forming workshops in Rome. The hop harvest in England is im< proving. General Booth sails for New Zealand oi October 14. Mr. T. Mann has resigned the presidency of the Dockers Union. Mr. Justin McCarthy is appealing fog funds in aid of evicted tenants. The London Carpenters' strike has already cost the Unions £50,000. V, Lord Lytton will shortly retire from thfl post of British Ambassador at Paris. The New Zealand Shipping Company will declare a dividend of 0 per cent. Parnell and his party urge the Irish people to boycott the Freeman's Journal. Robinson, of Nottingham, accompanies Lord Sheffield's cricket team as a reserve man. The Yemen rebels have captured fclia town of Hoderida, and are advancing on Mecca in Arabia. Arrangements are being made in Sydney to send a good collection of wools to the Chicago Exhibition. The bountiful harvest in Canada is adding a sum estimated at thirteen millions sterling to the wealth of the colony. The rebellion in Mexico was merely a raid of some Texan horsestealers, and the .. cavalry have gone in pursuit. It is reported that Stanley, during his recent visit to the King of the Belgians, resigned the Governorship of the Congo. The inhabitants of Saratoff, an important town on the Volga, have petitioned the Government to prohibit the export of oats and millet. Information has been received in Paris that the natives attacked the French Mission in Portuguese Guinea, West Africa, killing ten people. The Anglican Synod of Australia has shelved the motion favouring the assignment of the title of Archbishop to the Primate of Australia. Kaeuzer Price commands two stronglyarmed expeditions against the Wadegos, in German Africa, to revenge the massacre of the Zalowski expedition. . Howe, the member for Bourke, New South Wales, arrested on a charge oi obtaining £690 by fraudulent; pretences, has been committed for trial. Owing to the decline' in maize, Deacon White, one of the largest operators in the New York Exchange, has failed, with liabilities amounting to one million sterling. ■ At the Dockers' Congress, sitting ab Hull, Ben Tillett, ' one of the leaders, stated that the union was vastly gaining strength, and would, within a short period, number 120,000 members.. . Mr. Charles Prestwick Scott (Gladstone Liberal), edit or of the Manchester Guardian , ,v will contest the North-east Division of Manchester against Sir James Fergusson at, the next general election. Ab the lasb election the figures -Fergusson, 3G80; Scott, 3353. •