CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10443, 20 August 1895, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Laskerbe&t Steinitz ih the chess toomey. Bishop Barry has been appointed.rector of St. Jamas's, jPiccadilly. The Engineer offers a prize of IOOOgs for the.be3t self-propelled road carriage. The coaster La Montle has been wrecked on the New Caledonian, coast, and three lives were lost. Mr Stewart has paid the fourth dividend of Is in the estate of the Federal Bank of Australia. The Statist urges Mr Chamberlain to 1 terminate the commercial treaties with 1 Germany and Belgium. - l Sir T., Farrar declares that Mr ChamberI lain will find himself unable to depart from the Marquis of Ripbn's attitude in respect to differential treaties. The Corean Reform Ministry has collapsed, and the leader of the reformers has fled. He is accused of plotting with the Japanese to seize the King. A number of small republican' risings have taken place at Valencia and Castillo, in Spain. The gendarmes had no difficulty iv dispersing the disaffected persons. Tho Archduke Francis Ferdinand, eldest nephew of the Emperor of Austria, is seriously ill with a pulmonary complaint. He is spitting blood, and his condition is critical. Siemenß's offer to establish works to treat New Zealand iromand is conditional, on the Government granting a bonus of Ll per ton on the iron produced until the trade is placed on a firm foundation. At the annual meeting of the Cobden Olub the secretary reported that fche prospects of Freetrade in New Sduth'Wales wena highly encouraging, and that there were better tokens of a reaction in Victoria than had been seen for many yeaw.