Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 141, 26 May 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

— : « The Kiore (New Zealand) Sheep Com pany is being formed iv London with a *• capital of £20,000. The committee of tbe London branch of the Imperial Federation League has been instructed to submit a scheme for the commercial union of the Empire based as nearly -as possible od free trade f principles. The success of the Clerical Parties in 1 the general election Brussels has pro* yoked tbe Liberals. When the results < were announced serious street fighting took place in the capital, many persons being injured. s The Government of Quebec will prose, cute Ex- Premier Mercier ou three charges of malfeasance. Lord Glasgow arrived in Melbourne at noon on Tuesday and was met at the station by Lord Jersey, The two Governors drove in oompany to Government House. No more bodies have been recovered of those lost by the sinking of the boat Prouress in Port Phillip Harbour last ' Saturday. The area ot laud under wheat in South Australia last season was 152,452 acres, : showing a decrease of 11,150 acres. The effects of the drought in the north aud east of Adelaide were very disastrousAtGnolto thirty thousand sheep were destroyed, and at other stations they are dying by hundreds, Many owners are killing lambs to save the ewes. The Countess of Glasgow and family will come to Sydney by the Austral They will be guests of Lord Jersey till they leave for New Zealand. After hearing of 52 days a verdict was returned in the case of the Queensland Investment Company v. Thomas McHwraith, Palmer, and others. Thirty - six questions were submitted to the jury, and answers were in nearly all cases in fayour of the defendants, and the jury found that the defendants, as directors, made bona fide investments on full and sufficient security, and with full knowledge of the London Board. The Times, commenting on the decision of the Privy Council in the Buckley v. Edwards case, says had the Judges disallowed the appeal a disastrous blow would have been inflicted on the independence of the judiciary in New Zea* land. News from West Africa states that the rising of Jebus is crushed, four hun» dred being killed. Three British officers and thirty men were wounded.