Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 149, 14 June 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

Prince Ferdinand, of Buluarin, who is on a visit to London, lias been visited by the Prince of Wales, and entertained at lunch by ibe Lord Mayor. ! In connection with the poisoning of two j girls in Stamford street, Lambeth, re» , cently, the London police hint that start- ( ling revelations are likely to be brought \ out proving that there has been syslema ; tic poisoning of giris, and that there were ' se?ei or ciglit victims. i i The International Miners' Congress j has resolved to prepare the ground for an I international strike in the event of Parliament refusing to legalise the eight hour scheme. Sir J. F. Garrick, Agent General for Queensland, in London, in course of an interview declared that inter-tribal feuds and infanticide are the causes of the depopulation of the Pacific Islands. Mr Corvel, of Trinity College, has attained the position of Senior Wrangler of the University. Several of the ladies belonging to Girton College and Newn>> ham College, Cambridge, have been placed as Wranglers, The Premier of New South Wales, in his letter to the London Economist, reiterates that the colony, which is ad» mini.sfcered by his Government, has no intention of continuing borrowing or of floating a loan at present. The Rcy Thomas Spurgeonhas arrived in London, and it is arranged that he shall occupy the Tabernacle for three months. The General Assembly of Presby terians of Ireland have carried a resolution vigorously rrotesling against the granting of Home Rule to Ireland. Information has been received in Paris that French troops have occupied Whydfth. a district forming a province of Dahomey, on the West Coast of Africa. A serious revolt has broken out at Hnjura, (Herat) and the Ameer has despatched 10.000 troops to suppress it. The Kolnischc Zeitung asserts that the Czar promised the Kaiser at Kiel that i he would not support France in any at tempt to regain Alsace-Lorraine. I Mr T. A. Edge, of the North and Waverley Road Bicycle Clubs, has completed a journey between Land's End and John o' Groats, a distance of 874 miles in four days forty minutes, thus beating the record of Mr G. P Mills (four days 11 hours 18mms;, by over ten hours | Obituary -Baron Haber has died in Paris. Ife 'eaves property valueJ at three and one fifth millions, Mr W B. Perceval, Agent*Goneral for New Zealand, has forwarded to his Government a report on manila and sisal production