CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9300, 16 December 1891, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Duke of Devonshire is sinking. Spain and Holland will join the commercial league. The Paris printers are sending aid to the Berlin printers on strike. Influenza is raging in St. Petersburg, bringing typhoid fever and madness in its wake. Tho employes of 13 more firms have joined AA'aterlow and Sons' bookbinders on strike. A better tone is evinced in colonial stocks. New Zealand Z_ per cents, have advanced 10s. The Canadian Government urge England to mediate in the dispute between Canada and Newfoundland. The British AA'est Indies, excepting Jamaica, aro concluding a reciprocity treaty with the United States. Miss Florence Bethel gained the Sainton Dolby prize at the Royal Academy of Music. The Russian press state that the police are arresting people of all classes on suspicion of a general conspiracy. The citizens of Ballarat intend to send Home a wedding present to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. 1? The barquentine Seabird, which went ashore iv Macquaric Harbour, Tasmania, has been washed over the bar, and is now stranded. The Portuguese press are angry at the Brazil Legation for absenting themselves from Dom Pedro's funeral in the Pantheon, though the King of Portugal was present. A warrant on the ground of perjury has been issued by Mr Hurlbert against Miss Evelyn, plaintiff in the recent action for breach of promise. An Austrian monk and two nuns, who have been held prisoners by the Mahdi since the defeat of Hicks Pash in 1883, have escaped from Khartoum and arrived at Korosco, on the Nile.