Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 146, 7 June 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

Eleven more dead bodies .haye been recovered from the Berkeu burgh silver mine, near Prague (Austria j, Two hun« dred men are still missing. Altogether 70 bodies have been recovered from the mine. It is believed that the, jdeath roll will reach 350, „■•.«•[•■,••••••*• Mr Thomas Walker,: M.l*A.| fo.r Northumberland, (Sydney), while under the influence of liquor,' shot the Ber Mr Laseroo in a railway.' carriage* on the suburban line. The wound is stated not to be dangerons, although the bullet has not yet been extracted. .Mr Walker nas been arrested, and at present it? is not ' known whether the act was intentional. > In the Sydney slander case MrTobhey, > M.L.A., versus Mr Melville, Chairman of > Committees, claiming £200 damages for his ejectment from the Chamber, thie full • court held .that the Chairman had power > to order- Mr Toohey's removal, and en« > tered up judgment for the defendant. . The Brisbane Weather Bureanreports indications of a barometric .disturbance a- affecting the water between' Hobart and > the Bluff within nine days. - •■'■■• •■ Mr Hoyle, M.LiA., has issued il writ claiming £10,000 damages from Mr Eddy in connection, with the lat ter V statements to the Sydney Boyal Commission. r Many Germans and Austrians hare 1 been suddenly expelled from Warsaw. 1 The Berlin official press declare' that ' fche Czar especially desired an interview with the Emperor. f : * ■ ■"•-•'■•«' ' Princess Marie, the eldest. daughter of ' the Dnke of Edinburgh, is betrothed to 1 the Crown Prince of Rbamania. The Hon H. Matthews, Home Secre* ' tary, in replying to a question [ asked in the Honse of Commons to-day bj Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P. for-Cockermouth, : doubted whether the glove contest be* • tween P. F. Slavin and Peter Jaqkson came within the criminal law, but he had instructed the Public Prosecutor to en« quire into the matter. [The glove fight 1 referred to was fixed to come off on Mon* day. last.] A " The Butchers' Association in Adelaide has raised the price of meat Id all round. The capital fixed .for the Pears' Soap Company was subscribed six times orer. The London Trades Council has arranged a meeting with Mr Gladstone fer the 16fch to discuss matters concerning the welfare of working men. Mr Gladstone has arranged to deliver three addresses to the electors in Midlothian. In England the Press aad Salvation Army leaders consider it improbable that the class selected for General Booth's orersea colony in New Zealand will be chargeable on the Government of that colour, therefore guarantee is useless.