NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3890, 19 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, August 17. " There is no improvement in the condition of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. It is rumoured that Bishop Barry has been offered the See of St J ude, South Kensington. The Mark Lane grain market is hardening. Prices are 2s 6d above last Mondav's.

Reports from Berlin state that the prices there are twelve marks above Saturday's, and the American reports also state that prices are hardening thera.

The Prince of Naples is visiting the great factories. On Saturday he was shown through Palmer's shipbuilding yards at Jarrow and Armstrong's works at Elswick. The Customs Alliance between the States of Central Europe is postponed. The Swiss delegate is unable to agree to the conditions proposed.

Mr Maxim, inventor of tli wellknown rapid-firing gun, is reported to have invented a flying machine, which will carry two tons at a rate of ninety miles an hour.

The St. Petersburg correspondent ot the Standard and Times telegraphs that the prohibition of the export of rye continues for three months only. On Saturday last the price of rye in Berlin advanced twelve marks and wheat eleven.

FOREIGN.

Berlin, August 17. The price of wheat is relapsing after the recent forward movement both in Amsterdam and Berlin. Rome, August 17. Two aeronauts named Fieroni and Macerata were blown to sea in the Adriatic and drowned. Brussels, August 16. The Socialist Congress which is sitting: in this city represents 200,000 Socialists on the Continent and in Great Britain. Three hundred and sixty-two delegates are present. London, Sheffield, and other large Trades Councils are represented. August 17. The Socialist Congress at Brussels has refused admission to Anarchists, on the ground that Socialists desire to reform, not to destroy, the constitution. Sofia, August 17. M. Stainbouloff, the Premier, declares that he is unable to stop the immigration of Jewish refugees, because he is a victim of Russia's barbarous policy.

Valparaiso, August 17.

Information has keen received that the cruiser Esmerelda has destroyed the guano factories on the Choros Islands.

Pekin, August 17*

The Pekin officials remain obdurate and demand that the Great Powers should indemnify them for the loes in the recent riots. The Powers threaten a naval action. Paris, August 16.

The news of the massacre of the Crampel expedition, near Lake Tchad, is confirmed. Sir Morrell McKenzie, D.D., in the course of an interview with a representative from the Gaubis newspaper, stated that the disease of the ear from which the Emperor of Germany is suffering is serious but it is possible that His Majesty would live to old age. He predicts that the reported accident to the Emperor is merely a stiff knee. St. Petersburg, August 17.

The Czarewitch received a great ovation at Moscow on his return from his Eastern tour.

Sofia, August 17. Prince Ferdinand has arrived at Bustchuk. He declares that Bulgaria has risen in the estimation of the rest of the world, and asserts that she has the full sympathy and friendship of the Dmperor of Austria. Roue, August 16.

The Vatican is not hostile to an Austro-German alliance. It regrets that the Italian Government is using means to hinder the solution of the Soman question, Paris, August 17.

The Congregation of Kites has decided that the Holy Coat at Argenteuil(not the Argentine), a small town near Paris, is that of Jesus when a child, and that the Coats of Treves and Argenteuil belong to different periods. Nearly 2,000,000 pilgrims are arranging to visit Treves andß4,ooopass through thecathedral, where the holy relic is exhibited, every day.

Ottawa, August 17. M. Pacaud, financial manager for the Hon H. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, who is alleged to have received SIOO,OOO in connection with the Baie.Chaleur Railway scandal, has left Canada.

Calcutta, August 16. Owing to the actiou taken against the Bungabasti for seditious utterances, a Press Defence Society is being formed. Washington, August 17. Owing to the parachute failing to open, a woman who was making a descent at Cinoinatti fell 5000 feet, and was dashed to pieces. A similar acoident occurred at New York, where the parachutist fell into the water, and was drowned, New Yore, August 17. Mr Forster, Secretary to the Treasury, in an interview with a representative of the New York Herald, said the Government had a reserve amounting to 100,000 dollars in gold besides another amount of some millions which is only to be drawn upon m case of grave emergency. Without the gold reserve 107 millions were available.