CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7078, 31 July 1891, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph — P6r United Press Association PARIS. July 29. M.M. Alphon.e Rothschild and Eiffel are assisting M. Jans6n to erect an observatory on Mount Blanc. The driver of one of the trains whioh oatna into collision near St Maude hes been arrested for disobeying the danger signals. The under stationmaster at Vincennes has also been arrested. ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. The Czar and Czarina gave a stat. banquet to the officers of the French fleet at Peteroff. At midnight a band of Russian soldiers wantonly fired a Jewish hamlet at Kiele. Fourteen of the inhabitants were burned to death and twenty badly injured. The Jews m their desperation attacked the soldiers and killed several of them. COLOMBO. July 29. Mrs Picket*, an Australian lady who was converted to Buddhism, committed suicide. In accordance with her will her remains were publicly cremated in the presence of seven thousand Buddhists. TEHERAN, July 28. The girl Greenfield has assured the British Consul that she had been converted to I.lamism and followed her husband. She refused to return cf her own free will. LISBON", July 28. An armed boat's orew belonging to tha President Erra Zuriz, a Chillian cruiser which has just been released by the French Government, pursued the Portuguese police here for preventing men from embarking, and a fight was narrowly averted. The Chillian commander afterwards apologised bat not till all the Portuguese warships fn tbe harbour had cleared for action. Several foreign consuls are likely to take forcible means to prevent the President Erra Zuriz from kidnapping subjeota of their nations. It is believed that she has already many concealed on board. SYDNEY, July 30. New South Wales will be officially repre. sented at the Tasmsnian Exhibition. News from China reoords the foundering of the bteamer Tshizahi (formerly the P. and 0. Co.'s Geelong) while on her voyage to Yokohama with coal. All on board perished. MELBOURNEJuly 30. In the course of the debate en the Victorian budget Mr Gillies, who was Premier in the late Ministry, condemned the proposal to issue treasury bonds. If the Treasurer had done hi. duty there would bave been no necessity to come forward with a defioit. HOBART, July 30. It is reported that Mr Fysch will succeed Sir E. Braddon as Agent General. — — — — — ~— — — — __ _