Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 151, 18 June 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The rennant of the officers who served under Generals Gordon and Baker, 20 ie number, have arrived in Egypt. Thej assert that 1000 Egypian soldiers latelj joined CnptainLugnrd in Uganda. ■ Telegrams from Venezuela report thai Garria, Minister of War, is acting tern pbranlj as President. Rioting' in Cara« cas followed Polacio's flight. The Vene zuelan Consul in New York denies thai the President had fled, and other reports represent the Government as victorious. A compromise has been arrived at wil h Mr Sexton, M.P., and the Irish Free Education Bill-has passed through committee :■•'.■• The London police have mnny charges of poisoning against a man named Ncill, who hns been arrested on suspicion oi causing the death of a number of girls recently, but they are only proceeding with tour at present. It is expected that on the amendment to the Address«in fieply the South Australian (government will be defeated by a narrow majority. A London bank messenger was robhed of L3OOO to»dtify while walking ihrougb tbe City President Harrison has announced that it is imperative to take steps to put a stop to the practice of lynching negroes. The harbour, in which the petroleum steamer exploded was B'ave, on the Girnnele, below Bordeaux The Labour Unions of New Ycrk, forty thousand strong, gave a welcome to Mr .Redmond on his arrival in that city. r ..Mr. Dibbs met Sir J. Lubbock and a number of other bankers and financiers on _ TSTsdijesdny wi.'h whom, he spent several hours discussing the position of the colonies. He laid special stress on the soundness of the securities, and said he was gratified to find a feeling of confidence in; the city that the present depression in Australian stocks was only temporary. Mr Dibbs is convinced there is plenty of m'ont'T available for loans on favourable terms, lie is negotiating for the erection of a small arms ammunition factory in Sydney. Lord Ancrum (eldest son of the Marquis of Lothian), A.D.C. to the Earl of Jersey, wbile.out on a shooting expedition at Ddmbaia, in the Mqnaro district, in company with Capt. Leigh, was accidentally shot dead. The horse which Lord Ancrum was riding became restive, causing the gun to explode, the full charge entering (lie rider's bod 7, death being instantaneous. The Earl of Jersey, who 'was on a tour in the Irrigation C >unti y, is returning to Sydney.