CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9383, 24 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Prince Bismarck is improving. The Financial News considers that the retrenchment scheme of the Victorian Premier is inadequate.

The Chinese Minister is pressing President Harrison to allow Chinese immigrants to enter the United States.

Three Bulgarians who were connected with the murder of M. Vulkovitch, Bulgarian diplomatic agent in Constantinople, have been expelled from Odessa. *

A plot has been discovered among the military in Greece having for its object the deposition of the King. A number of. officers who are said to be implicated have been arrested.

lhe Berlin correspondent of the Standard states that the political crisis has been settled. Count Caprivi retains the Chancellorship of Prussia.

Strong efforts are being made to secure the release of Mrs Osborne prior to her accouchement. The efforts of her friends are supported by the medical testimony that the prisoner suffers from severe fits of hysteria. The Standard says that owing to Lord Salisbury's refusal to renew the modm virendi, the United States authorities will seize all poachers in the Behring Sea, believing that England will leave Canada to seek legal remedy in the event of the seizure of their vessels.

In the House of Commons Mr H. Watt, member for the Camlachie division of Glasgow, asked Lord Knutsford whether he would be favourable to a scheme for rendering South Australia an outlet for the surplus population of India. Baron De Worms said that correspondence was now passing between the Colonial Office and the South Australian Government with regard to the introduction of coolies into that colony, but no arrangement had yet been arrived at.

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