CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 34, 17 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PEK UNITED PRKsSS ASSOCIATION .) London. Septpmber 14. Rhodes, sorter in the Post Office, was sentenced to seven years for wholesale thefts of letters. Tippoo Tib asserts there is no truth in the story about Jameson and the cannibals at Ribariba. The occupation of Mitylene (Lisbos) by the British has affected tha Paris and Frankfort Bourses. The Daily News correspondent at Constantinople says that Turkey has not thrown herself into the arms of Russia, as is generally feared. Five hundred dockers of Carron and Leith Shipping Companies have struck against the reduction in their wages, and the strike is likely to affect the Australian export trade. In the return match between North und South, at Hastings, the defeat of the latter was only averted by the batting of of Ferris, whoVored 67, (not oat), and enabled bis side to make a draw of it. An Indian colonel named Desmond has accepted the challenge of the thoug its reader, Stuart Cumberland, for £10UO, to demonstrate the existence of occult powers. A British syndicate has purchased the principal type foundries in America. The Financial News points out that the railways of New South Wales are admirably arranged and distinctly reproductive. They form tangible security for more than half the debt of the colony. September 15. The Times considers the alleged occupation of Sigri by the British preposterous, and that it is simply a Bourse trick either to create a fall in Turkish securities, or to prevent the issue of the Russian loan. Both the Foreign office and Admiralty deny any hostile occupation- of Sigri, but consider it possible that, with the permission of the Porte, a few British seamen were landed there for reception or gun practice. It is doubted in the City if the New South Wales loan will be covered. The feeling among bankers and others is that the time is inopportune, since many leading financiers are away on holiday, and the public demand is small. Madrid, September 15. Appalling scenes are being witnessed in the flooded districts of Spain. In one house a family of eleven were found clinging together after the water had subsided. The Queen had contributed 10,000 douros to the relief fund, and the Government are utilising all available funds to mitigate the distress, and troops have been sent to bury the dead. The railway stations are besieged by refugees. The ruin in the Valley of Armar Guillo is enormous. Hong Kong, September 15. The Great Powers have renewed their protest to the Chinese Government against the continued outrages, and unless they are prevented, threaten a naval display. Athens, September 14. The Greek Consul at Mytilene And Smyrna announce that on Friday last 13 ships landed ' troops and guns at _ Sigri, situated on the western side of the island, an \ having hoisted the British flag began to fortify the place. The Russian and French Consuls at Mytilene confirm the occupation, and report that a small isle ofif Sigri was afterwards occupied and surrounded by torpedoes. The Aormina, the vessel which collided with the Arizona, sank in four minutes after the collision. The passengers were asleep at the time. Maxbid, September 14. It is stated two thousand people have been drowned by floods at Toledo. Help is unobtainable owing to the railway being washed away. September 15. A National fund has been opened for relief of the sufferers by floods in Sanbi. Great loss of life and property is reported from the provinces of Valencia and Andalusia. Fifteen hundred perished at Cornsugra alone. Hundreds of miles of country are submerged, Valpabaiso. September 14 Aldimalo, one of Balmaceda's Ministers, was murdered while escaping, by his own escort, and robbed of 30,000d01. September 15. It is reported that Balmaceda has been hiding m Valparaiso, and has just escaped to the American flagship disguised as a drunken sailor. He is expected to land at Callao. St. Petebsbitbg, September 12. The tiorrors ot the Russian famine are increasing daily. The rural clergy are starving, and the sufferings of the children are heartrending. September 15. Thousands of the Sfrundisfc sect are joining the Orthodox Creek Church in consequence of the presecution which is being instituted by order of the Czar. Berlin, September 14. Later information states that sixty natives attached to Zalewski's expedition escaped to Kondra, and that an attack is feared on the German station at Mpwapwa. September 15. Government will prosecute the Berlin Punch for publishing a coarse cartoon on the "Holy Coat" on the ground of wounding the sensibilities of Catholic subjects. It is feared that the disaster to Zalewski's expedition will lessen German prestige in Africa. Twenty-eight Europeans were killed in the fight. I'abis, September 14. The Parisian evening papers to-night comment on England's reply respecting the Dardanelles question in which the Marquis of Salisbury declared that Russia had no exclusiye right to the Dardanelles.