HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5080, 16 September 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

By ELECTKIO Tklkoiiam CorvßKJiitj

(PElt UNITED PIIESS ASSOCIATION'.)

Received September IG, at 10 a.m.] Madrid, September 15, A national fund has been opened fortho relief of the sufferers by the floods in Spain. Great loss of life and property are reported from the provinces Valencia and Andalusia. Fifteen hundred perished at Consnegua alone. Hundreds of miles of country were submerged. ST. Petehsisuhh, September 15.

Thousands of the Stundest seci are joining the Orthodox Greek Church, in consequence of a persecution which i s being instituted by order of the Czar. Buivlin, Septomner 15.

The Government will prosecute tho Berlin Fuuch for publishing a cnarso cartoon of the "Holy Coat," on t], o ground of wounding tho sensibilities of Catholic subjects. London, September 15, A British syndicate has purchased t)i o principal type foundries in America. The Financial News points out (hat the railways of New South Wales are adniir. ably managed and distinctly reproductive and that they form a tangible security more than half the debt of the colony. The stocks which were temporarily (l t ,. pressed by the news of the occupation of Lesbos are rising again. Received September 10, at ]G.3oa.in,] Loniion. September 15. ,

Ail Indian colonel named Desmond ])» accented the challenge of tho thought, reader, Mr Stuart Cumberland, for TjOfi, to demonstrate tho existence of occu]| powers. Pahis, September 15.

The funeral of ex-President Grisvy w; of an imposing character. The Presiclcm of tin; Senate and Chamber of Dcputii and several Ministers were among tho.present.