CABLEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2352, 24 October 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright) (by submarine cable.) LONDON, October 23. The New Zealand loan is quoted nt 984. The increase in freights of 2a 6d a ton has been postponed. The Baptist Union appeals to the Premier to interfere in Crete.

The Orient Company has conceded the demands made by their firemen.

The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company have declared a dividend of 4 per cent.

Some of the omnibus and tram companies of London are conceding shorter hours to their men.

Princess Teck is petitioning Lord Salisbury to grant* a pension to Mn Blanchard, the “ Female Emigrants Friend.”

Mr John Burns, who ia organising the railway employes, demands that th?y shall bo granted pay when traffic ia inter* rupted.

The first of the ten prisoners new on trial for tne murder of Inspector Martin, at Gweedore, has been convicted of mao slaughter. A collision occurred off the coast of Portugal between the steamers Herculei aud Deronda. The former sank, but all the crew were saved.

Intelligence has been received to the effect that 7000 inhabitants of the Ti«rii and Euphrates Valleys, in Asiatic Turkey, have died from cholera.

Messrs Rothschild issue a Russian loan of several bundled thousand million roubles, to provide repeating rifles and moriar batteries for the Russian army. The Lnoal Government Board have issued revised conditions in respect to assisting pauper emigrants, and have recognised tho strong objections of the colonics to the immigration of adult paupers. In a letter published in the St. Jamett Gazette the statemer t is made that it will be impossible to produce exact balance sheets showing how the moooy subscrib'd in aid of the dock labourers wae disposed of, ns no accounts were kept at the beginning of th» strike.

An important iron and steel company in the north of England is willing to establish works in Australis, aod to purchase tho properties necessary for carrying on their business immediately, If the colonial Governments will guarantee their custom for a term of years. PARIS, October 23.

The new Comptoir Dee Ccmptes ia creating double the capital of the former organisation.

CHICAGO, October 23. The whole of the jury ia the Dr Croats murder case are at leagth empanelled.

BERLIN, October 22. The Reichstag was opened to-day. The Emperor in his speech assorts that his personal relation with the Allied Powers will strengthen the ties that bind them to Germauy, aud he believes tint the peace of Europe will be maintained. During the coining yeur additional ex* penditure on the army and navy will be required. A bill dealing with Socialism is promised.