NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 145, 22 November 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE TURKISH TROUBLE. Constantinople, November 19. The Armenians state that 100,000 of their countrymen are dying of starvation and exposure, and they have asked to be permit fed to present a petition to the () phm of England praying for help an ! protection. The Sultan has ordered the mobilisation of 500,000 troops. He is furious at his Ministers protesting there are no funds to carry out the military arrangements, and he is trying to borrow a million sterling. A number of seditious placards which have been posted on the mosques in the city were afterwards placed on the Sultan’s table in his palace. Germany is sending an ironclad to the Levant. The Bishop of Aleppo was discovered to be urging the Bishop of Orjah to send arms to Zeiton, where the barbarity of the rebels is said to equal that of the Turkish soldiers. Constantinople, November 20. The Sultan spent the whole night in wiring messages to various Governors containing orders for carrying out reforms. London, November 20. Speaking at Brighton, Lord Salisbury said he had received a message from the Sultan of Turkey, in which he complained of the statement in his Guildhall speech that it was unlikely that the reforms in Turkey would be carried out. In .ffijjte message the Sultan said he believecTLord Salisbury had been misled, and he asked him to publicly deny the statement, and he offered bis word of honor that he would personally see that the reforms were carried into effect. London, November 20. The Common Council of the City of London, by a majority of 85, declined to pass the customary vote of thanks to Sir J. Renels, the retiring Lord Mayor, alleging that he had utilised his position for company promoting. New York, November 20. An electric car, while crossing a drawbridge in Oleaveland, Ohio, struck the closed gates and was precipitated into the river—a distance of 100 feet. Twenty of, the passengers were drowned. Rome, November 20. The ship Solferino, bound to the Argentine Republic, with a large number of Italian immigrants on board, ran ashore at Centa. Twenty lives were lost. Sydney, November 20. While Constable Sealey was conveying two prisoners by train the captives attacked and nearly killed him, and subsequently effected their escape. Sir Henry Norman, late Governor of Queensland, interviewed, said he thought it was desirable to have combined land forces for Australia. As far as openness to attack was concerned Australia had always been more or less liable, but it safely lay in the power of the British Navy. Whilst they had that safeguard they were tolerably free; without it any firstclass power who cared to come along would be in a position to take the country. The whole matter was summed up in a strong protecting power, and with England’s supremacy on the seas, Australia ought to feel secure.