CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1057, 2 June 1892, Page 33

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, (special.) Threats are being made to destroy the French missions at Tanyan. Anti-Christian riots have broken out in Manchooria. Tho Czar and family have arrived in Copenhagen. Mrs Thompson has again made applica tion for access to her children, but Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, refused to make an order, pending the result of the divorce case. A man who had been successful in saving 27 lives during the floods in Missouri was himself drowned at the finish. He was accorded a great public funeral. The death is announced of Mr William Vanderbilt. The Russian Government has agreed to advance 75 roubles to each needy emigrant who goes to Baron Hirsch’s colony. The captors of a train robber and murderer in Florida tortured him until he confessed the names of his gang. An amnesty has been granted to the political prisoners in Brazil. The Greek currant crop is unlikely to be large this season, the blossoms being very poor. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, will consider the new facts elicited by Mrs Maybrick’s counsel. The King of Dahomey is attacking Grand Porto. The Earl of Dysart has gone over to the Liberal Party. Lord Knutsford has invited the AgentsGeneral to a dinner, to be given in honour of the Queen’s Birthday, which is being celebrated on the 28th inst. > At the Copper Conference it was agreed to reduce the output by 5 per cent. The French Government is asking for subscriptions to assist those in distress in Mauritius. Signor Succi, the Italian who has successfully carried out his fasting schemes, has become insane. A woman named Beatrice Cooper has been sentenced to a week’s imprisonment in the Spinning House by the Cambridge University authorities. The sentence has been severely handled by outsiders, and the authorities were hissed. M. Dfwitt, in a letter to the Chronicle,

urges that Home Rule would protect Irish industries. Lord Carrington has declined nomination for the Chairmanship of the London County Council, which has been vacated by Lord Rosebery. (press association.) The Duchess of Teck and Princess May have had a narrow escape from serious burning, owing to a cmdle igniting the clothes in a bedroom. The New South Wales Government has decided to grant individual relief in special cases to the destitute and unemployed. , , The long-expected torpedo boat lias arrived safely at Melbourne. Captain Osborne has resigned his commission in the Army. By a fire at Williamstown, near Melbourne, nine shops have been destroyed. The retrenchment scheme before the Melbourne Harbour Board proposes the reduction of salaries, and urges that a 10 per cent proportional diminution be made in the Commissioners’ fee. , A good sum lias been subscribed in Melbourne for the Mornington Relief Fund.

The Canadian Government steamer Quadra has been lost in Barclay Sound, ot 1 the west coast of Vancouver Island. Professor Maccoum, a Canadian Behring Sea agent, was among the passengers. The Free Church of Scotland has forwarded to the Assembly of the South Australian Church a legacy of L 2300 left by Mrs Smith, of Duresk, to promote the spread of the Gospel in that colony. Obituary—Captain Vicary Lavel. All on board the Government steamer Quadra, lost off Vancouver Island, were saved. William Astor left fifteen millions sterling to his family, and bequeathed several thousands to charities. The premises of Mappin and Webb, manufacturers of electro and silver plate, Oxford street, were entered by burglars on Wednesday night and 3000 oz of silver plate stolen. The Catholic press in England is discussing the possibility-of canonising the late Cardinal Manning. Deacon, who was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for shooting a man vyhoru he found in his wife a bedroom, is appealing against the sentence, and it is believed he will be granted a free pardon. The American House of Representatives has ordered that only the exhibits of the American Government are to he closed up on Sunday at the Chicago Exhibition, and has refused to prohibit the sale of liquor at the Exhibition. The Senate is debating Senator Stewart’s Free Coinage of Silver Bill. John Cahill, cashier of Taylor’s Land Credit Bank, Melbourne, has been drowned in the Yarra. An information for complicity in the frauds had been sworn against him, and he is believed to have committed suicide. A conference of delegates at Townsville resolved that nothing short of territorial separation would meet the present requirements of the northern portion of the colony. The resolution will be submitted to Lord Knutsford through the Governor. Good rain has fallen all through the country round Broken Hill, and the dams are full, thus allaying all danger of a water famine. It is expected in London that Newfoundland aud Canada will federate. An application is to be made on behalf of Mrs Montagu for a remittance of the sentence passed on her for cruelly ill treating her children. The grounds of petition are the same as those lodged on behalf of Mrs Osborne. In the House of Commons the Small Holdings Bill has passed through all its stages. Mr John Hutton, who represents the South Division of St Pancras in the London County Council, has been elected to shortly succeed Lord Rosebery as chairman. A German Judge in the German East African Territory has sentenced seventeen slaves to be hanged. It is asserted that the United States Senate is likely to pass the Free Coinage of Silver Bill, introduced by Senator Stewart. The debate on the measure has been adjourned. The steamer Oaklands, which stranded at the mouth of the Richmond River, has Ken floated off with only slight damage. The Indian Currency Association formed at Simla, petitions Parliament to allow the Indian Government a free hand in carrying out reforms with regard to currency. Rear Ailmiral R. C. Mayne, M.P. for Pembroke and Haverford West, died suddenly on Saturday from a fib_ of apoplexy, with which he was seized shortly after leaving the Mansion House banquet, given in honour of the Queen s Birthday.