ENGLISH CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1891, 13 October 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH CABLE.

[Rbutbe's AoßNcnr.] London, Oct. 11. A rumor is current here to-day to the effect that the Sultan of Turkey has decided to meet the demands of the Powers, and hai resolved at last to surrender Dulcigno unconditionally to Montenegro. Further news has been received from Teheran regarding the rising m Kurdestan. The rebels - now, m addition to pillaging th« towns, are massacring the inhabitants, and Hischosiet (?) Klian is collecting a large force of Persian troops to proceed against them. A Cabinet Council which had been summoned for to-day was postponed owing to news received at the Foreign Office that the Sultan is inclined to yield to the demands of the Fowera m regard to Z>ulcigno. Tt is now known that the proposal which had been made by the British Government to the Continental Power* for the coercion of the Porte is that the combined squadron should enter the Gulf of Smyrna, and place an embargo on Turkish commerce. Austria and Germany hciitate to accept this proposal. The report which was made that the Sultan had offered to cede Dulcigno to Montenegro, has now been confirmed. Several American oarsmen are coming to England for the purpose of rowing against Hanlon the Canadian, and Laycook the Australian, oarsmen. Throe per cent Consols, 98£. Adelaide flour, per 206 lbi, ex warehouse, 35s 6d ; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 46s ; best Australian leather, lljd ; best sides Australian hides, fair demand for most descriptions. The Times m a leading article to-day strongly urges giving » respite to the

Porte, m view of the cession of Dulcigno to Montenegro. Obituary— Sir William Linton. New York, Oct. 11. A serious railway accident is reported as having occurred at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an excursion train by which twenty persons have been killed. Athens, Oct. 11. Owing to the possibility of hostilities betneen Greece and Turkey over the settlement of the frontier question, a number of volunteers are arriving here from other countries, and offer themselves for service with the Greek army.