Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 147, 9 June 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The London Times says that the aborigines in Northern Queensland have been treated like .wild ;beasts, and it would be politic on the part of the Government of * die colony not to provoke discussion. It believes it may be possible to use inferior races for tne development ot the country, and at the: same time avoid settling them permanently on the soil. Daring tlie last two or three months several girls have been poisoned In Lon^ don under mysterious circumstances, and the police believe they have at last got a cltie to the murderer. . A man who had saved 12 lives in the burning of the Berkenburgh mine, near Prague, lost his own in attempting to rescue the thirteenth. Of the men ori* finally in the mine, only 13 were saved. Three waggons were filled with the remains of the victims. It is stated the "mine was set on fire in several places. The damage is estimated at £125,090. r ' Twentjrseven miners were suffocated while attempting to rescue their comrades. • . Tie fire on the ship Nayertree at Syd riey has- been extinguished. The cargo ii valued at £58,000 but the amount of -; damages has not been ascertained. . ■:■ Sir Graham Berry, Treasurer of the New Victorian Government, has proposed an additional tax on stock ; the tax on imported cattle to 30s per head ; sheep, .25, ; pigs, 10s ; horses, 50s ; beef and mutton. 7s per lOOlps ; povk, 10s. Tlie motion was carried by 70 to 17Sir Arthur. JL Gorton, in a letter to the ' London Times in regard to the proposed Kanaka traffic, states that disaster must result from Kanaka population, and that it will b&a reproach, to England if the policy is r carried out at the expense of the population. It is estimated the damage done to Titusville, (Pennsylvania), is a million and, a half dollars, while each of the adjacent counties suffer to the extent of a million each. Many persons are missing and many perished through the burning oil floating on the flood waters. It is now publicly stated in Washing* •'■ ton that recent /bickerings have taken place between Mr Blaine and President Harrison's sections in the Cabinet , Another, stp'ry is .to the effect that Mrs Blaine instigated her husband to resign and stand for ,the Presidency, so that he (Blaine) might be in a position to have rereDge on President Harrison for his refusal to appoint a certain officer. The National Zeitung deprecates the acceptance of the charges made against Capt Lug&rd in connection with the Uganda. missions until an enquiry has been made-