NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3610, 10 September 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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' _ .London, September 7. Particulars of the destruction ol Salonioa show that the fire burned for fully 24 hours. It was oaused by the bursting of a spirit'still, A mosque containing ' .priceless records was burned.

Eighteen thousand people ' are homeless and destitute, The Greek GoverupQt is assisting to relieve the sufferers.

The damage is estimated al £200,00.0 (? two millions,)

. September 8,. The ship Loohnagar, bouud to Ilawkesbury, collided with a vessel in the Channel, and lias put into Falmouth for repairs, mslra. Lisbon,. September 8, "The Portuguese lieutenant ■ who was court-inartialled for seizing the Lake Oompauy's steamre Shire was acquitted, on the ground that holuid merely oheved Q^efs, BpuK, September 8. The Emperor of Germany reoeived an Ovation on his visit to" Sohleswig, Vienna, September 8.

Tho damage by- the floods in Austria and Bohemia is estimated at four millions.

Ottawa, September 8,

Some excitement lias been caused in Canada' by Cardinal Taschereau absenting himself from the banquet to Prinoe Gporge of Wales, .because the Admiral and, the General com* manding refused to concede him precedence noxt to tho Prinoe, Paso, September 8, :

- General Boulapger repudiates the bo undertook to place the Com|e;|e Paris on the thrown of France that he was Bub. sidieed and appointed to the oommand of the array,:or that he agreed, to imprison Kotobfort and other parti, sans if thoy proved hostile to the scheme. Since these revelations the collapse of Boulangorism is regarded as complete. ' " • ' . PffilSt September 8, M, S|ermix, author of the Boulangist revelations, has fought a duel withM. Labruyere,.editor of Le Gil Blast during which tho latter was Y?9t'lM - ' M. Mermix -lias< arranged several other daelu. ' .

r- ' A73IRALIAN. Stdsev, September 8. ; The London; Chartered Bank has sued the Government for £6OOO, the amount of overdraft oooaeioiled by Uiddilatone's frauds. The Court said it wjs inconceivable why the the Bank allowed- tlie overdraft to grow without enquiry. Tlio Ouatoms authorities have finally , decided to impose a duty on hydraulic lime.