CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 January 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Telegrams from St. Petersburg state that the disease known as " Black Death," which appeared in Dublin in 1866, ia raging over the country from Samarcind, a city of Russian Central Asia, to the mouth of the river Obi. The disease is especially severe at Obdorsk, where thousands of people are dying. The report of the liquidators in Barings' estate shows that there is a substantial surplus. Owing to difficulty experienced in procuring crews for the Australian cruisers, ihe regulation precluding the drafting of men who have served less than five years has bean relaxed. General Booth, who has announced his intention of visiting Australia in September, will take 100 mechanics with him Tbe strikers stoned a locomotive conveying police to Oarntyne where a disturbance has arisen, and one constable was severely injured. The authorities of Glasgow are likely to proceed against John Burns for advising the strikers to put a little more devil into tbe fight. Free sailors shipping ou board the Aorangi and Merkara have been brutally assaulted by the pickets. The violence of the railway strikers is increasing. Tampering with the points, attacks on free labourers, and attempts to wreck trains are frequent. The ICng'ish Railway Companies urge the Northern Companies to resist, fearing that a surrender on their part will entail a strike on the English lines. Mrßiadlaugh, M.P. for North ' ampt 'U, is in critical health, and his condition is causing auxioty to hi > iriends. Auckland hemp, medium quality, averages £24 15s per ton ; Wellington medium quality, £28. The market is strong. The shipment of New Zealand butter, ex steamer Rimutaka, is realising fram 90s to 112s per cwt. The Serpentine River in Hyde Park is frozen so hard that vehicles are enabled to cross the ice. The Daily Chronicle states that Mr Parnell retires from the leadership of the Irish party and that Mr Justin McCarthy, who was appointed leader by the seceeders, will remain at the head. The Times states that bailiffs are destrainin^ largely on the shops in New Tipperavy, and that the tenants who are frantic at the action of tbe landlords, oondemn the coward'y and cruel treatment practised by the latter under tbe name of Nationalism.