Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 134, 10 May 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

.» The Pahnng rebels are showing a bolder front, and have killed several Chinese, besides attacking a Sikh escort. Owing to the outrages Coolies are deserting the mines. Public opinion in Singapore cen« sures the Governor tor refusing to employ the military and navy in suppressing the revolt. The Pall Mall Gazette considers that Mr Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, who is en route to England, will hare his work cut out to reassure investors in colonial stock, especially after the letter published by Mr Wilson, of the Standard, in the Investors' Review. The recently established Blackball Colliery company, of Greymouth, New Zealand, is arranging to supply coal to the steamers belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. It was reported in Zanzibar on Sunday that Emm Pasha was dead. Colonial stock are ycry firm. Prices are advancing, and there is a better feeling nil round. Experts declare that some of the New Zealnndcheese.es Mornyshire, was robbed of cream and fat substituted. Great complaints are made at this practice, which is calculated to exclude the article from the market. The Marquis of Salisbury delivered an impassioned harangue to the members of the' Primrose League on behalf of the people ot Ulster, who dreaded being put under (he feet of their hereditary and irreconcilable enemies. The language of the Ulster leaders was a most menacing symptom, and the situation was such that any attempt to impl oy military pOWet by Knglnnd would keep Ulster under. The acrion of Archbishop Walsh would rend society, as Home Rule was not a message of peace, but of religious civil war, and such a hideous picture could not become a reality without enfeebling the credit and power of England throughout the world. Parliament, he said, had the right to govern Ulster, and no ri^ht to sell the people into slavery. His Holiness the Pope has issued another Encyclical to the French Cardinals in which he urges the Conservative forces to work in unity and harmony and accepting without reserve the constituted Governnvn', but retaining the right to comb-it legislation in opposition tv the good of the Church. The Parisian press declare that the King of Italy is confronted with dis* armament or bankruptcy. Arrangements are being made for a match between Peter Kemp and Tom Sullivan for £200 a-side. Negotiations are proceeding to induce the late Victorian Railway Commissioners to accept compensation for thsir discharge, and abandon their claim for in» vestigation, either in the law Courts or in the House.