ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2829, 17 October 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

. (Prr Electric Teleorafh— Copyright.] b i [Recter's Aoencv.] [Roooivod 11.30 a.m., Oct. lGth. I 3 Madrid, Oct. 15. L> It has transpired that the new Ministry 1 formed by Seuor Herrera have decided to drop the diapute with the French Government regarding the insult offered to King , Alfonso last month at Paris. Paris, Oct. 15. \ M. Ferry, President of the Council of . Ministers, who is now m the provinces, c made speeches at Rouen and Havre, and [, urged moderation and unity on the part s of Ministerialists m the coming struggle I with tho Extremists during the session of 0 Chambers commencing next week. r St. Petrrsbuug, Oct. 15. II Intelligence is to hand from Zewonka, r a town m the province of Poltara, m 1 Southern Russia, that during tho service m the Jewish synagogue an alarm of fire '■ was raised, and a panic occurred. In the rush for the door 3 of the building forty ' women were crushed to death, and thirty ; others were seriously injured. t l The Czir arrived tit Peterhoff to-day „ from Cronstadt. ,- Hone. Kong, Oct. 15. Latest news from Tonquiu states that 5 tho Chinese troops who recently arrived r at tha frontier are now quitting their 0 positions and retiring into the interior. 1 London, Oct. 15. The steamships Catalonia, from Lytr toltou (left August 25th), and British 11 King, from Lyttelton (left September Ist), have arrived at Plymouth. Their c cargoes of frozen meat are reported to be ™ m good condition* [Rocoivcd 1.30 p.m., Oct. ltlth.l i Constantinople, Oct. 15. Intelligence has been received from 1 Chios, an island off the coast of Asia c Minor, that a serero shock of earthquako • had been experienced there. A largo * number of houses have been destroyed ? and several persons seriously wounded, though no loss of life occurred. News is ' also to hand that tho earthquake caused . Berions damage at Divalik, and that a j number of deaths have occurred.