ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4913, 2 September 1890, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Pjik Electric Tei.eora.ph— Copy right.) (Per Pbess Association.) '.Rooeivod H a.m., September Ist.) FROZEN MEA.T. Rio db Janeiro, Aug. 29. Tho Ruapohu arrivod to-day, nnd the Duko of Sutherland yesterday, both oorgooH m good condition. (Roooivod 8 p.m., Sopfc. Ist.) FRENCH BOYCOTT OF WHEAT. Paris, August 30. Foreign wheat is to bo oxcludud hum! I tho French army contraotß. |

THE SEALING DIFFICULTY. New York, Auuuat 30. An American cftiiser ordered aealer3 carrying out their calling m tho Behring sea to deaist. The sealers offered no resistance and took their departure. THE POTATO FAMINE. London, August 30. The tubers m Ireland are partially rotten. offer 3of assistance have been received from Canada. The potato blight is spreading m Cheshire, Flintshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. DESTRUCTION OF COAL. By a fire at Radcliffe wharves, 1000 tons of coal was destroyed. (Special io thb Press Association.) LEeceived 10.40 p.m., Sept. lst.l THE EGERIA COURTMARTIAL. London, August 31. The men discharged from the Egoria are agitating for a. revision of the sentences passed on the mutineers. They dilate on the tyranny of the courtmartial and assert that the witnesses were terrorised. MR DA V ITT AND IRELAND'S ONLY HOPE. Rumours of disaffection against Mr Pnrnell are revived and Mr Divitt's name ia included among the malcontents. The latter is represented as saying that he hnd Imped the spectacle of Ireland boginng for assistance had como to an end after the last famine. Tho varied eyotom of crop culture is m his opinion tho only hopo for Ireland, otherwise tho Tory panacea of emigration is inevitable. TOE SULTAN. Constantinople, August 31. Tho Sultan ia furious at the escapo of Mousaa Bey. It is feared that further agitation m Armenia will be the result. THE TARIFF BILL. Washington. August 31. It 13 probable that Mr Kinley's Tariff Bill will be shelved, tho sugar difficulty being the barrier.