NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3909, 10 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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London, September 7. Mr Howard Spensely stands for Dudley at the next election. Signor Foli, the well-known singer, has signed an engagement for Australia. Mr Hercules Robinson, junr, is betrothed to the third daughter o» Lord Castlemain. It is reported that Messrs Oppenheimer have arranged to float a three million loan for the Transvaal at a minimum of 87. FOREIGN.

Paris, September 8.

The Credit Lyonnaise will in October offer a Russian 8 per cent loan of 20 million sterling at 84. General Gallifet watched the manoeuvres of the French troops from a balloon and directed their movements by telephone. September 7. The Russian Government has arranged to hold a National Exhibition in Paris next year, on the lines of the recent French Exhibition at Moscow, A Fussian loan of 600,000,000 francs, (£24,000,000 sterling) hat been arranged in France. Constantinople, September 7. The Turkish Government hat decided not to allow Jews to entei Palestine. Berlin, September 7. The Kaiser had a great reception at the Bavarian military manoeuvres, St Petersberg, September 8. The famine among the Russian peasantry is increasing. Sofia, September 8. The house of Bishop Methodius it Sofia has been searched and th< archives seized, and he is suspectet of being implicated in the murder o M. Beltcheff, Bulgarian Minister o Finance, who was shot dead on thi night of the 27th Maroh. Washington, September 7. Just before an execution at St Joseph, Missouri, a priest handed thi condemned man a revolver. He firei twice at himself without seriou effect, and was carried bleeding am struggling to the scaffold, where thi sentence was eventually carried inti effect.