CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 September 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. Storms are ruining the Irish crops as well as those in England. The P. and 0. Company are adoptting a new type of steel lifeboat. A. train was set on, -tire by the electric light at Finchley, but though the passengers were greatly scared, no lives were lost. Five deaths have been caused by lightning in various parts of Austria. The girl Mitchess, who was found shot in a railway carriage at Bedford is dead. v The Turkish Government is negotiating with the Messageries Co., for steamers to convey troops to Yemen. Steamers belonging to this Company engaged in the Mediterranean coastal trade are being armed, in consequence of the increase of piracy in the Levant and other places. A sudden storm took the roofs off thirty houses in Boulogne. Several chests containing dynamite and arms have been seized by the t Government in Sofia and Rustchflk, ( and several peisjns suspected of coa- ] spiraoies against the Government ] 1 hftva been Rm*fc3<3. \

The sealers of British Columbia ntend io send a petition to the 'rentier of England protesting agains^^^ he closing of Behring Sea for sealj^Mpi lurpoees until May, and suggß hat compensation should be paid to ealers on the average take of three ears. They point- oafc-- that by ■dopting this latter suggestion the lecessity of an expensive enquiry rould be obviated. There ii a continuous rise in the irice of wliefct and ryeln Berlin.