CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 116, 27 September 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

home and foreign.

PROTEST AGAINST TAXATION OF PILGRIMS TO MECCA.

Calcutta, Sept. 24

The Moslems of India have addressed a petition to the Viceroy _ against the proposals to regulate pilgrimages to Mecca. They urge that the increased tuxes on pilgrims are exciting hostility, and their practical effect is to prohibitlarge numbers from reaching the surest way to Paradise. They also contend that the taxes are a breach of tbeQueen’s proclamation of 1858 securing the religious rights of all the in habitants of India.

WHAT A VANDERBILT M \ RRAGE SETTLEMENT MEANS, New Yolk, Sept. 25, The marriage settlement of Miss Gonsnelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr William Yandeibilt, pnd whose engagement to the youngDukeof arlborough has been announced, is ten million dollars, and the Duke receives three million dollars additional.

THE NEXT POPE TO LIVE IN FRANCE London, Sept. 24.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says that the next Pope be s lected at Avignon, in France, fora time the residence of the Popes. A sum of £IB,OOO is being expended on the restoration of the old Papal Palace, in order to fit it as a permanent place of residence. ' THE AMERICAN OUP. London, Sept. 25. Mr Rost, owner of the yacht Satanitn, his issued a challenge to (be New York Yacht Club for a race for the America Cup in 1896. He is building a cutter for the purpose at Southampton. PHYSICAL FORCE IN IRELAND. New York, Sept. 25. In Chicago a Convention, which consists of a thousand delegates from all the States the Dominion of Canada and Australia, is planning for- the revival of militant fenianism in Ireland. THE REVOLT IN CUBA. Savannah, Sept, 25. The Cubans claim to have defeated the Spanish troops in a recent engagement, killing 400 of the latter and losing only 40 themselves.