Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 136, 14 May 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

.» The Hon A. J. Balfour considers that the Pun Brittauic Festival is likely to develop good feeling between the Eng lish speaking races, but State patronage and control is undesirable, Cholera is raging in Cabul, and owing to its prevalence the Ameer is encamped outside the city boundary. A million people have signed a petition against the opening of the Chicago Exhibition on Sundays. The Canadian Government is dismissing several hundred postmen and reducing railway expenses. The appeal in the Hanbury divorce case, tried in March, was dismissed. Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, said a criminal was responsible unless the di.s ease of the mind was so great that he was unable to understand the nature or results of the act. The jury were the sole ultimate judges of the scientific evidence as to the state of mind. Intelligence has been received in Paris that riots have broken out in the French Leeward Islands, West Indies, among the coloured population. The Govern* ment warship Tahiti is engaged in quelling the disturbance. The election for the North Hackney seat in the House of Commons, vacated by the death of Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly, resulted in the election of Mr Bonsfield, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 969 over Mr Meates, the Liberal representative. Sit W. V. Harcourt, in the course of an address to an immense meeting at Bristol, ridiculed the idea of Ulster rebelling. Fenian Unionism would, he said, be as bad as Fenian Homo Rule He accused the Premier of preaching treason Owing to the capsize of a raft on a river near Brody, a frontier town of Austrian Galicia, sixty persons were drowned. . Thirteen thousand Cwc hundred ounces of gold have been recovered in the Randt mines by the Macarthur Forrest orocess, forming i 4 per cent of the total output at Johannesberg. Half the Bordeaux vintage has been destroyed by frosts. The Caoaihnn Fncific Railway has earned four millions this year. The net profits exceed 1| \ier cent. Mr D, Gillies has been elected leader of the Victorian Opposition,