CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9340, 3 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Sydney tailors strike is declared off. The new French tariff is expected to increase the imports of English goods. The German Lloyd's steamer Eider went ashore at the Isle of Wight during a fog Sir C. HaU, Q.C., M.P. for Chesterton, has been appointed Recorder of London.

The natives of Rangoon have resolved to promote the Mahomedan religion in England. Chilli is using a loan of five millions in order to withdraw the notes issued by Balmaceda. The dispute with Bulgaria over the expulsion of a French journalist is closed, and amicable relations have been renewed.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has ordered prayers to be offered up for the removal of the influenza.

Eight thousand engineers have gone out on strike. It is feared that the movement will affect 30,000 men.

The Education Bill now before the Prussian Diet places schools under the control of the clergy, and has excited bitter opposition. The Czar proposes to rebind the peasantry to the soil, as they were in former days, and compel them to cultivate it, the State retaining two-thirds of the produce, and one-third being stored in magazines of each Commune for the supriort of the peasants.

The memorial issued by the Zemstvos predicts that unless the Government change their attitude Russia will become bankrupt or will be dismembered by a popular rising, which will deluge the country with the blood of its inhabitants.

The Times expresses the hope that Queensland will retract and apologise, so that friendly relations with the Bank of England may be renewed. It deplores the possibility of Imperial and Australian interests suffering from th« present misunderstanding. The Sanitary Conference have finished their sittings. An efficient hospital is to be provided on the Suez Canal, and no ship is to be detained longer than five days. Special, rules have been made applicable to mail steamers upon their giving satisfactory guarantees. The English delegates have not signed the convention, reserving the question of the method of dealing with troop ships. The prices of food are rising in Paris in consequence of the new tariff coming into operation to-day. Several of the Parisian papers are asking how contracts can be safely made in view of the precarious character of the tariff, and accuse the Protectionists of plunging France into difficulties of a dangerous venture.