THE CABLES.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 175, 9 December 1892, Page 2

THE CABLES.

A movement is on foot in the Reichstag to bring about a conference between the Great Powers to secure neutrality of privete vessels in the event of war. j In giving- evidence before the Panama Canal Inquiry Committee, the accountant of the company mentioned the names of seven leading Parisian newspapers that had been bribed. A convention sitting at New Orleans have passed a resolution favouring the Nicaragua Ship Canal on the ground that it would be double trade, bring San Francisco ten thousand miles nearer tc New York, and attract Oriental i ra- i <- Air ’ übuuche.ro has been formerly reconciled !■ .Mr G! d-uouc, tile difficulty raised by his ex-Lu-iun :i, ai office having been smoothed over. A-a dug to the text of the • Triple Alliance ’ pub:i-hc 1 b\ the ■ Journal de .Paris,’ in case of « r ilk; ! Lilian twees will be directed against the French frontier. Jay Goukl, the American millionaire, who was suffering from nervous dyspepsia died on Friday last, December 2nd. Jay Gould died from pulmonary consumption, after nine days’ illness. He leaves a fortune of thirty-four million sterling. It is expected that he has bequeathed from three to five million dollars to charities. George Gould inherits 40 per cent of the estate. The entire American press refer to Gould’s death with contemptuous pity, and are glad that his sinister influence has ended. The lowest estimate of Jay Gould’s fortune is twelve millions. His death flattened the stock market, which, however, soon regained firmness.