Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 153, 23 June 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

♦ Mr H. M. Stanley stands as Tory candidate for North Lambeth. A great boiler explosion occurred on the French crusier Dv Puydedome, by which sixteen men were injured. The steward of the steamer Oroya has sickened, and bis looks a bad case . A large number of pas3engers by the vessel have reported themselves and been vaccinated. They are required to report themselves at frequent intervals. The man Mill, now in custody on a charge of poisoning a number of 'girls, is proved to be the writer of a letter to Mr P. Smith. M.P.. demauding £2500, or threatening to inform the police. He tried to poison one of the Lambeth yictims. The powder magazine in ParoloysviMe, Kentucky, was exploded by lightning and 50 persons injured. The members of the provincial Labor Leagues approve Mr Gladstone's attitude on the Eight Hours question. Accounts from Venezuela allege that ex-President Palaoio, before his flight took the precaution of emptying the Tueasury and remitting the money to his personal account in London. He then left for Trinidad. The Government suffered heavy defent at Guanare. Several generals were killed. There is already immense activity and intense feeling over the English general election. Both parties are sanguine, as to the result. Cholera has made its appearance in Afghanistan. The streets are strewn with the corpses of those who have fallen victims to the scourge. A German butcher killed a police sergeant and badly wounded two spec* tators at Charing Cross who attempted to effect his arrest. In the Italian elections the Liberal Part* have been successful. Great crowds attended to cheer Signor Crispi, and shouted dowu the Pope.