CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 94, 7 August 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

a HOME AND FOREIGN.

AN ITALIAN BANK FAILURE. Rome, August 5. Cirged Bros., bankers, of 'Genoa, have failed for 20,000,000 lire (over £700,000). Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the principals. THE SITUATION IN BULGA RIA. Sofia, August 5. The organ of the Zankoff Party at Sofia urges Prince Ferdinand to abdicate in favour of Prince George of Greece. The delegates who went on the mission to Russia received an ovation on their return. Archbishop Clement addressed the crowd, dwelling on the community of in terests between Bulgaria and Russia. M. Matabieff is still alive. NEWFOUNDLAND BANK SCANDAL. St. John’s, August 4. Intense excitement has been caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that four directors of the Union Bank overdrew 2,500,000 dollars, representing nearly the whole of the amount overdrawn. AN ANARCHIST BLOWN Tq PIECES Paris, August 5. During festivities at Douai in honour of M. Yeuillemin, manager of the mines, an Anarchist wounded him with a revolver, ■end prepared to throw a bomb. The explosion, fortunately, was premature, and the assassin himself was blown to atoms. 1 Ten other persons, however, were wounded The Anarchist was a miner who had been dismissed. FLOODS IN JAPAN. Tokio, August 6. Terrible floods have caused enormous' damage in Japan, and the failure of the rice crop is likely to cause a famine.