Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The Liberals in the Dominion Parliament intend lo bring forward a motion affirming the desirableness of ilomeßnle j to Ireland. Messrs John O'Leary and W. Ued* mond, presented Stephpns, the Fenian, with the title deeds of a house in Dublin. Mr Redmond stated that ho fully shared Mr Stephens' aspirations. Sir William Jervois sails in the Kni« koura on 26th instant for New Zealand, where he intends to spend some months. The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn propose to visit Australia shortly. The British Budget resolutions have been agreed to. Persia has raised a loan in London to pay off the holders of the tobacco mono poly in preference to accepting aid from Kussia, which was offered a short time ago. The Sultan of the Pahangis is pursuing Orang, the rebel leader, whose son was killed in a recent skirmish. The Labour Executive in New York have ordered luO.OQO stoneworkers in the United States to go out on strike. Owing to the famine' the Czar has ordered retrenchment to be effected in all branches of the public service. The military manoeuvres will also be much curtailed. General Booth is negotiating with various shipping companies .in London with regard to their terms for the conveyance of fifty thousand of the " submerged tenth "to New Zealand. The General states that he intends to send his colonists out in batches of five thousand each. He will probably first make an expert* ment with fifty families, who will be sentf to Cape Colony to: form a village community, i , .:.■■:■.; . : { The London County Council propose, after the next eighteen months have expired, to expend £1,600,000 on public works, including £420,000 for housing the working classes, and £200,000 for the purchase of the tramways. , .:.-'.. • An independent board of enquiry into the Tarana railway accident (N.S.W.) found that it was caused by a flaw in a rail of the permanent way. In the Melbourne Assembly Sir Bryan O'Loughlan expressed pleasure that the Federation movement was dead, and that Sir John Robertson's prophecy had been fulfilled, ... : .;: French Socialists are tlking steps to from a Socialist colony in Paraguay, S.A., and they will ask the Chamber of De« puties to grant a subsidy to assist them.