NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 229, 13 November 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE FAMINE IN INDIA. Calcutta, November 10. Five thousand famished rioters at Sholaghur in Bengal looted a grain store.- The police fired on the mob, killing four and wounding six.

THE PRESIDENCY. N York, November 10. Since th. ivsult of the election has been announced mills which employed 100,000 men and had been shut down have re-opened. This refers especially to iron and woollen industries. London, November 10. Smalley, American correspondent of the Times, states that the prospect of passing the new tariff is uncertain and remote. THE EUROPEAN QUESTION. Constantinople, November 10. Nelidofif, Russian Ambassador has been summoned to St. Petersburg. Vienna, November 10. Bismarck has informed a local newspaper that the Czar in the middle of the seventies asked Germany to remain neutral if Russia attacked Galicia, the reason assigned being that the Russian Army was tired of peace. No reply was sent and no action taken with the exception of a recall of the German Ambassador. The Czar, he states, shortly after entered into a compact with Austria, enabling Russia to attack Turkey, but against the wish of the Czar Austria informed Germany of the intrigue. The Sultan is buying 10,000 rifles. St. Petersburg, November 10. The Czar has ordered the production of the documents connected with the secret treaty referred to by Bismarck. London, November 10. The Times says France and Russia are building fifteen battleships against Great Britain’s twelve. It considers this an alarming state of things and urges the First Lord of the Admiralty to place England’s supremacy beyond dispute.

THE TICK PLAGUE. Sydney, November 10

Dr Wynne, who has been investigating the tick plague in Queensland on behalf of the Government there, has submitted his report, in which be states that the tick is infested with various parasites, but experiments failed to show the isolated particulars of the parasite, which produces Texas fever from the tick itself. The latter, he says, merely acts as a vehicle for inoculating animals with fever, and adds that there is now every probability that by subcutaneous injection, the constituents of which will shortly be published, fatal effects will be prevented. Dr-Wynne has recommended the Queensland to carry out the experiments on a large scale, and if effective the remedy will be cheap and easy of application. In conclusion, he states there is great danger of the disease spreading into New South Wales, and fears that there will be greater mortality among cattle in Queensland than there was last year.

Constantinople, November 10

The Sultan has reduced salaries fifteen per cent. Brisbane, November 10.

The well-known Australian ship Blengfell, from New York, reports during the voyage the Negro cook, Godfrey, b :came insane, and fired at and wounded two seamen named Napier Wicks and Silva. The crew were called aft for safety, when Godfrey again fired, and shot dead a seaman named Lewis. The madman then took possession of the forecastle and kept it for three days, when the crew decided to rush the place, but on doing so they found Godfrey was missing, having apparently jumped overboard.