Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 142, 28 May 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

— i ♦- ■ ,•' In view .of. the. general eleption, the. Marquis of Salisbury has' addressed' a meeting of 400 Tory electioneering agents. '.;■•- --; The Labour Electoral Congress is urging that the question of Payment of Members be made a test question at the coming general election. , . The result of the division on the second reading of the Irish Local Government Bill is ieiidouraging Ministers to push, the Bill through* nnd the general election may possibly be delayed till it has passed. 'Amotion providing for the disestablisliment.and'disehdowmfnt.of.the.Scotch Church was defeated in the. House ot Commons by 56, and an amendment to the effect that, it was desirable that the Scotch, Churche s. 'should re-unite on a national basis was 1 carried by a majority of 70. . ". • , „ Several' conflicts have taken place between/ Sikhs . and" Malays at Pahang, The latter burned several Tillages occu> pied by Jheir opponents. The British troops have gained further victories in Lushailand* General Booth is sending a delegate of the. Army to. New Zealand to negotiate with the Government for better terms for land' for the settlement which the General proposes to found .in New Zealand. --; vw;-'; ■•. .' . • ••• ■ • •-••■■ The captors of a tram robber and murderer in F.lprida tortured him until he confessed the names of his gang. An amnesty has been granted' to the political prisoners in [ The Greek currant crop is unlikely to be large this season, the blossoms being very poor. . ; -r< .Mr- Matthews, Home Secretary, will consider the new facts elicited by Mrs Maybrick's counsel. Twenty ,lhousand~personsin Cleveland, Yorkshire, are said to be drl the verge of starvation, owing to the distress caused by the strike df miners, ' ]■ The tailors, are employing Jewish middlemen, some of whom have decided to accede to the .demands of the men out on strike. „A milh'pn ., acres, in Tennessee and Arkansas haye been submerged by the floods', and a great quantity of wheat is destroyed. ...... Copenhagen. is thronged with visitors. The festivities in celebration of the King of Denmark's golden wedding are on an immense scale... . France: apd Spam have concluded a commerdaT. .treaty.. Spain reduces the duty on woollens. Much opposition is shown in Borne to Signor Giolejtti'B financial policy, and the fall of the new Ministry is regaided as imminent. . ■