CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8815, 2 March 1892, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The gales on the Portuguese coast bar? caused terrible damage. China is making large purchases of Krupp field guns and howitzers. There has been no resumption of the dte orderly scenes in Berlin, and the city h generally quiet. Twenty thousand rebels in the mountains in North China will make raids on the low country in the spring. A Chicago gold - beater has been fined £200 for a breach of the alien labour contract law in having engaged two Australian workmen from abroad. Sir Henry Bessemer, writing to the London Times, recommends aluminum coin as a substitute for notes. This, he says, would render forgery impossible. The Russian Senate its discussing the proposal to make it imperative that those who apply for letters of administration shall be familiar with the Russian language and laws. This is aimed at Germans. A despatch from Havannah states that the chess contest between Mr. Steinitz, of New York, and Mr. Tschigorin, the Russian champion, resulted in a victory for the former by ten games to eight. Five games were draws. Mr. Dillon, replying to the Irish American National League, states that personal bitterness prevents the re-union of the Irish factions, and declares that the division of parties is destroying the agrarian i movement.