CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9323, 14 January 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Anti-Jewish riots have broken out at Saratov, on the Volga.

The Auckland Harbour Board debentures have fallen 8 per cent. .

A revolt has taken place among two regiments at Buenos Ayres. ■ A great force of rebels is looting the country in the vicinity of Taugiers. The house of Sir John Millais, R, A., at Perth, N.8., has been destroyed by fire. The pictures were saved. ■. :,.■■■,;

■ The Canadian-Government intend to sue Mr I'akaud for 100,000'dol in connection with the Baie-Chaleur railway contract. ASt. Petersburg journal, the Novosti, chides the impatience of France to secure the immediate evacuation of Egypt by the British' Count Leo Tolstoi writes to the Daily Telegraph that though the famine in Russia is severe, the people are strangely gay and healthy, and that drunkenness is rife. The City Corporation of Dublin, by a threefourths majority, refused to congratulate the Queen and the. Prince of Wales on the approaching marriage of the Duke of Clarence. The French delegates at the Sanitary Conference desire to compel all ships arriving at Suez to undergo disinfection, though it is possible that a compromise may be arrived at with respect to British vessels. . '■

Mr Perceval, the Agent-general for this colony, in a letter to The Times, traverses the statements in an article published by that paper on November 9, and denies that it is the intention of the New Zealand Government to make

loan companies or banks conducting legitimate business pay more than formerly.