NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3910, 11 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, September 8.

Major Lovett, of Adelaide, has distinguished himself by bis gallant resoue of a drowning lad who had fallen into the Thames.

The Rev 0. Spurgeon has recovered sufficiently to be able to leave his house. He spent half an hour in his garden to-day. The attendance at the London Board schools under the free education system already shows an increase of 28,000. At the Oriental Congress Professor Bterndale read papers on Asiatic architecture and migrations in the Pacific Ocean, and Commissioner Fuller a paper on tbe Fijian language.! The Metropolitan Railway Company have offered to aiopt the Gibson link, a colonial invention.

The Chronicle, commenting on the criticisms on Australians that hare heen published recently, says the colonists have conquered great difficulties and their brilliant success is one et the wonders of a world prolific in marvels.

London, September 9. Parnell refuses to attend the Chicago Convention in October.

FOREIGN.

Paris, September 9,

A Greek statesman, presumably M. Tricoupis, has assured M. Blowitz, Paris correspondent of the London Times, that unless the Sultan concedes justice to the Cretans, the Greek fleet will take the matter in its own hands.

It is rumored that the contract for the Russian loan provides for the transfer of £7,000,000 worth of gold from Paris, tq St Petersburg by tb,e end of the year. It is now reported that M. Grampel, the leader of the Lake Tchad expedition, was murdered by his own troops owing to his roughness, j Constantinople, September 9.

Three gendarmes were killed in rescuing kidnapped Jews in Bablaski, It ii officially announced that the change of Ministry does not imply a change in the European policy of Turkey. Sir W. A. White, British Ambassao dor, demands that the Porte should apologise for firing on British merchant vessels passing the Dardanelles in July last, and in the meantime declines to visit the Sultan's palace. Cholera is raging at Aleppo and Aintab in Bjria, and is spreading we3t. Two thousand deaths- are reported daily. Hong Kong, September 9. China lias appointed a Consul at Singapore. Bucharest, September 9. The Queen ofßoumani* is worse. Bbbmw, September 0, Germany has been officially enquiring the Canadian rye crops, and the Government has been informed that 2,000,000 bushels are available for export. Copenhagen, September 9. The Chilian cruiser Presidents Pinto has arrived here from Kiel.