CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8705, 23 October 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Mr. Paiinkll died intestate.

The Czar will probably reach Berlin on Thursday.

Copious rains have fallen in the Presidency of Madras. The dramatic censorship has been suspended in Fiance. Four hundred houses have been burned at Lida, near Grodno, Russia. The Czar gives three million-roubles in aid of the distressed peasants. The Russian Government is stopping the export of buckwheat and millet. It is believed that the next Methodist Conference will be held in Australia. The Freedom of the City of Bristol has been conferred on the Duke of Edinburgh. It is feared the French champagne vintage will nor, exceed twelve million bottles. The German Government proposes to spend ten million murks in fortifying Heligoland. The Hon. J. A. Chapleau, Secretary of State for Canada, is in a critical state of health. The French Customs Committee is in favour of imposing 25 fiancs upon imported >> salt meats. i Captain Shaw receives a pension of £1000 on his retiring from the tendency of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Sir Charles Dilke declares that the British occupation of Egypt closely re Bemb)es the French occupation of Rome. Sixty labour unions, representing, one | hundred and fifty thousand men employed | in the northern industries, met at Darling- ! ton and agreed to federate. The South Australian House of Assembly is deb'itinar a motion to abolislt capital punishment, to which an amendment has beon proposed substituting electricity us a means of execution instead of hanging. The Victorian country party are endeavouring to bring about a dissolution of Parliament on the Electoral Bill, while the Government nro equally determined to oppose Parliament dissolving [ before the effluxion of time in. April. The Western Union Telegraph companies cut off the New York Associated Press from the use of their lines because the latter owed them £10,000. The press declare thoy will use telephones for the despatch of their messages.