NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3892, 21 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

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London, August 18.

Church officials are in a quandary regarding the remains of 1400 persons found in the vaults of a city church. The doctors object to them remaining there on the scoreot health. At the annual meeting of the London General Omnibus Company, the Directors said the outlook was gloomy, in view of the shorter hours worked by employed and the inciease of wages. The returns for the half year were the worst ever experienced by the company. A dividend of 5 per cent was declared. August 19. The prospectus of the West Indian and British Guiana Ice Company, with a capital of £150,000, is being issued. Among the objects of the Company are the shipping, storage, and sale of Australian and New Zealand frozen meat, dairy produce, and fruit. The Contemporary Review has been formed into a Limited Liability Company with a capital of £10,500. The " Holy Coats" at Treves and Argenteuil have been examined with the microscope. The latter proves to be of camel's hair, and the former of linen. The French and English Admirasl of the Mediterranean Squadrons are holding a friendly meeting at Villefranche. The populace of the place are very enthusiastic.

POREICrtf. Constantinople, August 19. The Turkish Government is fortifying the Eussian approaches to Constantinople. Berlin, August 19. Protests from the German Catholics against the exhibition of the " Holy Coat" at Treves are increasing in number. Vienna, August 18. By the bursting of a rain cloud half of the village of Eollman, in the Tyrol, was destroyed, and many persons were drowned. Forty people in all were drowned in the Kollman disaster. Ottawa, August 19. The report that McGreevy had been 'arrested for failing to attend at the bar of the House of Commons and explain his refusal to give evidence in the Corruption Enquiry is incorrect. McGreevy has gone to New York, and sent in his resignation in order to avoid expulsion. The British Association has opened its meeting here. McGreevy declined to undergo examination on the ground that he would implicate political friends and Ministers and cause the overthrow of the Government.

Paris, August 19.

iVenty people who weat mad with fright during the collision at St. Maude have been declared incurable. Buda. Pesth, August 19. Three wonun, professional poisoners, were arrested at Szentamas, in Hungary, on a charge of poisoning thirty husbands at the request of the wives. St. Petersburg, Augu3t 19. Eight thousand foreign Jews have been expelled from Odessa. New York, August 18. A syndicate has lodged a Bum of $37,000,000 to assist the Union Pacific Railway Company. Washington, August 19. A million dollars worth of damage was inflicted by a fire at Jacksonville, in Florida. New York, Angjist J9. ._ Tresfdeut-JSawijion, in the course of a speech at A Ibany, s<iid the scarcity of wheat in Europe gave the United States an opportunity to bring back lost gold through the medium of its exports.