CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9343, 6 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Sir Morell Mackenzie died of syncope following influenza. The lightening of H.M.S.-Victoria is still proceeding. The weather remains favourable. The Russian Jews in the Argentine are discontented, and desire to return to Europe. Mr Cox, the Irish delegate, says that there are no Parnellites in New Zealand. The miners of the Wear have accepted the reduction of a shilling, and resumed work. It is reported that the Jewish colonies in Palestine are failures. Stansbury has agreed to row Sullivan for the championship and L2OO or LSOO a-side. The Standard urges the Government to increase the grant for the Chicago Exhibition in the interests of trade. City men want to know definitely the object of the visit of Mr Dibbs, the New South Wales Premier, to England. Cooper, one of the Englishmen imprisoned on a charge of espionage at St. Etienne, appealed and got his sentence increased. A German loan of eight and a Prussian loan of nine millions, at 3 per cent., will shortly be issued. The minimnm is fixed at 83£. Ex-Queen Natalie has gone to Biarritz. The Liberal party in Servia have invited her to return, and offer to support her claims if she does so. A conference has been arranged between representatives of Canada and the United States for the purpose of discussing reciprocity. . It is alleged that the officials of the Russian Red Cross Society embezzled no less than 13 millions of roubles intended for the relief of the starving peasants. The head of each religious denomination in England will be invited to Mr Spurgeon's funeral. The Tabernacle will be draped in black on the occasion. The Congregational Union of England have expressed their sympathy with the Baptists in the incalculable loss they have sustained by Blr Spurgeon's death. Blrs Osborne is expected to plead guilty to the charge of false pretences, and appeal for mercy; in which case it is believed that she may get off with a short term of imprisonment. Mr H. H. Fowler, speaking at Plymouth, characterised Lord Salisbury's Exeter Hall speech as the worst appeal to the basest passions of religious bigotry ever made by an English statesman. An American company, with a capital of 2,0Q0,000d01, have made, arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines of the Monte Carlo establishment. It will be placed on an island oif the Mexican coast, near Vera Cruz.

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