Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 139, 21 May 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The French hare captured; a. pirate stronghold iv Tonquin, but tW'atti'ctcy? cost them 180 men, including'fire oncers'; ' A British expedition has stormed twd; ; towns near Jebus. si •> ; •: ?■ At tbe Glen Innes criminal 86881611%, Coleman, the driver of the train lnwhjch^ (he accident happened to Sell's .^circus ; ; was found not guilty: of manslaughter. , The charge against Kelly, the guard, .w.as; V withdrawn. Two leading Anarchists . hare .. been _ sentenced to three and ; four year* respectively. ■■* ■ 1 .yy ■■ The proposal in farour of plural troting 1 -; was defeated in the House of Commons t y a majority of 47. . ; •.: ; ,> In . the division on tlia motion to abolish tho daal vote, the iLiberlM rotea solid as a party with the "aye&"*The Tories demanded redistribution^ on^ the basis of the equal Value of rotes, Information has been received I that British troops fired on the town of Jebah, killing eight allies. r- ■ I .'I Mr Gladstone, replying to a command cation from the Liberals mK*nti said ; his Irish scheme would prevent the inter- 0 4 ference of the State in church matters;-' >■ In his speech at Hastings, Lord Salisbury denied that by his ; remarks afe* *= days ago he had tried to fomentrebellion - in Ulster. l r; '■'■'■■■■ ;; -/ '' ;: -f The Durham strikers hare declined {b accept' a reduction of 13£ per: c6nt in wages, and have resolved tdeoiitinu'e 'the struggle, i -■/ ; ; -r Owing to floods railway traffic'; 'has. been stopped in New York? atfd : 1,500 ; families hare been rendered, homeless aft?-' St. Louis. _ _. -■- ■■'■^-'■■-.^■■: j-cT A fatal shooing accident occurred near Wangaratta, (Victoria) by which George Richardson, aged 17, ' lost' his tffeV v H& was reterning home after shootms in a paddock with a companion "an^"h~aa^W**' cross a fence. 'He was -prisfiing^thV-Igafj/* before him, with the muzzle towards iSsf body, when it exploded, .y, ht:u -hd) It is reported: from - lfenezueja r ,-jthat \ Garcia, the principal .Gfoy.ernmenfe; t eral, has. been killed in. .CaryacaSj/iEe.^ capital. ■ ' -• ••; i n The New Zealand athletic, team • trill [ ' probably compete -at the International - Athletic Meehsg afe Paris in J-o^ •i£ / • A curate named Bell has been arrested • oh separate charges >of assault qnf two = young ladies in a railway carriage on the line near Hunge.rfprd. . ' , . .^"^ At a meeting of the Women's Tiiberal ' Federation/Lady Aberdeen pMsicfmgv 4 motion, proposed by Lady Carlisl^ W-the" effect that the women franchise Question should be made a test, question at the next general election,- was' adopted. Eleren million people hare-: petitioned the management not to open the Chicago Exhibition on Sundays. Th^Tsiffnatures to the petition received in Ohio and Michigan exceed the number of the en,*, tire i EIQTTfB | Lord Salisbury, speaking aPHastings, said England ought to be prepared to retaliate on hostile .tariffs, but without ,. excluding raw materials or f ood, r They might, howerer, tas such lusttries as wine, silk, lace, &c Foreign ; affairs he regarded as absolutely calm at present, and he was confident that arbitration would ultimately replace strikes., f erring to the speachV ihe ! Times -and Standard express the opinion that commercial retaliation would be ■an tmwise 1 . steptotake. .-,■ ; r: . ; :.- Mr Samuel Mortagu M.P, for Whitechapel, will move at the coDterence of Chambers of Commerce a resolution favouring the decimals system of coinage. The Agents-General of the "British colonies hare been invited to beceme vice-Presidents of the Congress.