FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4843, 14 May 1890, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Pkb Egkotrio Telegraph — CujprKiunr.) (Special to t;ig Press \ar>oixiios ) (Received noon, May 13th.) DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES. New York, liny 13. Cyclones passed over Ohio and other parts of America. Immense damage was dono to property,but the los 3of lifa was small. DISMISSAL OF A MINISTER. Constantinople, May 12. j Djorodet Pacha, Minister of Justico, has been dismissed from offico at the instance of Germany. i _____ ____ RUSSIAN INTRIGUE. Sofia, May 12. The indictment preferred against Major Panilza, who is accused of taking part m a conspiracy to dethrone Princa Ferdinand, implicates m tho plot the Russian Minister at Bucharest. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR. Berlin, May 12. It is rumoured that General You Oaprivi, tho Chancellor, intends to resign, tho reason being that the tortuous maz.es of diplomacy are foreign to his character. TRANCE DISEASE. London, May 12. It is stated that tho trancc-liko disease, known as La Nona, has been ascertained to be a form of ncuros. THE TELEGRAPH CONFERENCE. It is believed that vigorous notion on the part of the Agonta-Genoral at the Paris Telegraph Conference will secure | the reduction of tho chargo for ordinary cablegrams to tho colonies to 5s per word. Mr Hennikor Heaton ia pressing the Government to support tho reduction.