NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8166, 18 August 1887, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Eibcxrio Telegraph.—Copyright. (special to potted press association. ) London, August 16. The recognition of Prince Ferdinand's election is exciting interest, and it is feared that complications will arise. , , It is announced that JJussia has ’warned the Porte that she will consider the Berlin Treaty abrogated if the Powers recognise Prince Ferdinand. The cholera in Northern India has assumed alarming proportions. Seventy thousand deaths have occurred during June and July. The Novoe Vremya characterises Lord Salisbury’s speech as that of an optimist, and ridicules his belief that the probability of war has passed, and declares that it is merely the repugnance of the Emperor of Germany to war which preserves peace. At a meeting of unemployed sugar refiners it was decided to request the Government to facilitate the discussion of the sugar bounties question by Parliament. The success of the proposed conference on the subject in London is regarded as hopeless, unless England is nrepared to tax imports. Mr E. J‘. Stone, M.A., Eadcliffe, Observer at Oxford University, and who was appointed to organise the plans for the observation of the transit of Yenua in 1882, is compiling the various observations made on that occasion with a view to their early publication. Mr Stone calculates that the distance of the earth from the sun is 92,500,000 miles, with the uncertainty of a quarter of million of miles. Thousands of quarrymen and factory operatives are unemployed in "Wales, owing to the drought there. At the inquest on Madame Elmblad, held at Silvaplana, Switzerland, the verdict was that she committed suicide. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 16th instant:—-“Tallow.— The market is better. Good mutton and beef are both worth 23s per cwt. Frozen meat Market quiet, Canterbury mutton is worth 3£d per lb, and lamb Sd.”