LATEST CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 295, 16 October 1886, Page 2

LATEST CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, October*lo. ] The efforts of General Kaulbars to incite treason in the Bulgarian Army have failed, and Russian meetings are everywhere conducted with a great amount of danger. Bulgaria has been compelled to accept Russian loans. A plot to provoke a rebellion in the chief centres of Bulgaria»on the • 15th inst., as a prelude to Russian occupation on November 9th, has been discovered. Russia is massing her troops at Odessa and Bessarabia. High officers stationed along the Austrian and Roumanian frontier, declare that the occupation of Bulgaria by Russia is a certainty. The Czar is in a state of nervous excitement. October 11. Neil Matterson, of Sydney, has issued a challenge to row any one (bar Beach) on the Paramatta River, in June next, for £SOO a-side. The final heat of the Wei h Harp Sculling Handicap was won by Babear, who takes the firit prize. " Captain Moonlight" and two accomplices have been arrested in Coontw Cork, Ireland. October 13. The statement published by the * Daily News' that the Government was preparing a scheme for the government of Ireland on the basis of providing a National Couneil for each of the four provinces, is generally discredited. St. Petersburg, October 13. Tine * Viedemoste ' publishes an article to-day, in which it urges the occupation of Bulgaria by Russia. It declares that Russia still remains free, and has no need to listen to the wishes of the other Powers. Ottawa, October 12. An American fishing schooner which failed to report at the Customs at Nova Scotia ha 3 been seized, and her owners fined. As the master persisted in hoisting the American flag the captain of the Canadian cruiser Terror order a party on board to lower the flag, which was accordingly done, and an Armed guard placed in charge of the schooner.

Sofia, October 11.

The elections for the Grand Sobranje, or National Assembly, for the choice of a Prince for Bulgaria commenced yesterday throughout the country. At one polling place in this city to-day a hundred and fifty peasants, acting under the initiative of Necklindoff, the Eussian Consul, attempted to obstruct the proceedings. A serious conflict resulted between the adherents of the Eegency and the supporters of the Consul, and in the melee many persons were wounded. The disturbance assuming a serious character the gendarmerie were called out and the rioters dispersed. The Government party are securing a crushing victory at the elections, and will have a very large majority in the Sobranje. The Eussian Consuls in tne principal towns of the provinces have been endeavouring to prevent the elections proceeding. Necklindoff, the Eussian Consul at Sofia, in obedience to the command of General Kaulbars, has given a formal notice to the Bulgarian Government that the elections for the Great Sobranje are illegal and valueless. He has further protested at the rioting which has recently taken place, and the treatment which his supporters received at the hands of the adherents of the Eegency. Vienna, October 12. Lord Bandolph Churchill, who has for some time been travelling on the Continent, has arrived in this city.