British and Foreign

Southland Times, Issue 11842, 16 September 1891, Page 2

British and Foreign

[United Press Association*— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. ] CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 14. It i 3 reported here that a British ironclad has lauded a detachment at Sigri. Tho Stock Exchanges and Bourses are weak in consequence. MADRID, Sept. 14. It is stated that 2000 persons have been drowned by fhe floods at Toledo. Help is unobtainable owing tc the railway being washed away. TEHERAN, Sept. 14. It is reported thar a widespread plot is being organised to depose the Shah. VALPARAISO, Sept. 14. Aldimalo, one of Bahnaeeda's Ministers, was murdered, while escaping, by his own escort and robbed of 30,000 dollars. ATHENS, Sept. 14. Received 15th, 10 p.m. The Greek consuls at Mytelene and Smyrna announce tint on Friday last thirteen bhips landed troops and guns at Sigri, bituated on the western side ;of the island, and having hoisted the Briti.-ih fla„', began to fortify the place. The Russian and French consuls at Mytelene confirm the occupation, and report that the small isle of Sigri was afterwards occupied and surtouuded by torpedoes. CAIRO, Sept. 14. The seizure of Sigri has occasioned an immense sensation here. PARIS, Sept. 14. The Parisian evening papers to-uight comment on Britain's reply respecting the Dardanelles, in which the Marquis of Salisbury declared that Russia had no exclusive right to the Dardanelles. BERLIN, Sept. 14. Later information s; :.tes that sixty natives attached to Z.-7'v7 i's expedition escaped to Koi dra ard that an attack is feared on the (icrnmu station at Mpwapwa. Tlie massacre has created intense excitement here. LONDON, Sept. 14. Tippoo Tib asserts that there is no truth in the story about Mr Jamieson and the cannibals at Ribariba. The stock brokers are delighted with the intimation cabled from Sydney that three of the local banks are tendering largely for the New South Wales loan. Rhodes, sorter at the General Post-office, has beeu sentenced to seven years' peual servitude for wholesale thefts of letters. Good merinos and crossbreds are active, but the prices are unchanged. Medium and faulty sort 3 are easier and slow of sale. Received Kith, 12.50 a.m. Five hundred of the dockers of the Carron Shipping Company have struck against a reduction in wages, and the strike is likely to atfect the Auatrallaa export trade. Sept. 15. Received r6th, 12.50 a.m. The Times considers the alleged occupation of Sigri by the British preposterous,and that it is simply a bourse trick either to cause a fall in Turkish securities or to prevent the issue of the Russian loan. Both the Foreign Office and the Admiralty deny a hostile occupation of Sigri, but consider it possible that, with the permission of the Porte, British seamen have landed there for recreation or gun practice. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15. The horrors of the Russian famine are increasing daily. Even the rural clergy are starving, and the sufferings of the children are heartrending.