Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 148, 11 June 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The English climate interferes with the training: of New Zealand athletic oteatti, and it is expected they w?ll be throwmout of the champion meeting, at S^tmfgrd Bridge. : .;.'. ;; '„" ; . , ' : ?■„ 'r.- i . y i' l . i vl v Sir J. G. Bu'ffey, writing iq_ipsjifreemaa's Journal, urges: Mr Gladstone's 1 Home Rule j'soheme. A statement signed -hy- 6000 clergymen and officials of ' the ' non-Episcopalianj churches in Ireland, to^th'e effect tnat the Roman Catholic priesthood wiU domttrate the Irish ParHamen£,!has been forwarded to the dissenting clergy, in England. The list of fatah'ties inJhe^Pqgngjbwiia oildistrlctsjlias increased? loJsOOi^jndny men were drowned jn t^e Oil City because they would not' desert their wives, whom they believed to be in danger. . ; v Major McKinley 's election tb'the chairmanship of the Convention indicated that he is likely to secure nominaiioo for the Presidency if the first ballot for General Harrison fails. .-,...,.;■ ■;-:,■-. .1/.,:."/ After three days' severe fighting ythe President's troops were forcsM^i?etrfl« before the insurgents near Vdentia,,^ Venezuela. • ' .V^ v 5 ;; „ A movement haa been set' oh>ibat in Chicago to suppress lynching and protect negro voters. ; .■••?.■; -7 ..t'T News hasreached Zanzibar confirming the information received some .days. r a«> that Emm Pasha was dead. ' . '■. ?.«. r) The Government of Mexico has tfranted the Mornioni 100,000 acres m' 'tfee pro* rince of Chibahua,,arid , will probably jn crease the aTea after the. %^'hflit|U «of settlers amye. , „ ...... The Fooohow market lot ttie new season's tea has opened* andi the prices for Panyongs and other teas suitable for colonial' sajgairemeiitsrare I i^H^nt lower than last season. , The r first crop is estimated to lie 20,000 ohestJß Je»B than last year. ' freights are the same 'as last season. T ,•. „; ,__.... „ ..,,..-,^.r -?€~V Mr Chapman, who, under rM^jqamj^ " Augur , if yrak until recently, .spprtong editor of the Australa^an,; dielj, aiT^j bourne^asrTlin^day^;;;;^ "^g. '^