Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 155, 28 June 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Cholera is raging in Samarcand, and it is feared that it will spread into the famine stricken districts in liussin. While Mr Gladstone was addressing a meeting at Chester a woman threw ;i piece of bread at him, wounding him in the eye and causing an abrasion of the cornea. The wound bled freely and caused much pnin. During the course of nn interview m Vienna Priuce Bismarck stated that war between France and Germany was ultimately inevitable. The official press attribute Prince Bismarck's utterances to jealousy of the success which has attended Count Capnri's foreign poucy. The Anarchist friends of Ravacliol (condemned to death for murder) failed in their attempt to kidnap Deibler, the executioner. The New Zealand athletic team made a poor show at the Crewe Amateur Athletic meeting. P. Wood ran second in the Quarter mile Handicap, but tbe Others ' failed to gain a place in their , events. A scheme is afloat in London to form a , Union of wool producers and importers, J with a capital of £100,000. It is suggested that the members of the Union should act aB their own brokers and have a scale of common charges. Intelligence has been received that an officer and a man were killed on H.M.S. Nile in Vowlaßay by the explosion of a charge of gun cotton, which tore a hole in the deck. ■Widespread action is being taken to relieve the prevailing distress in Melbourne. The Wesleyaus are making a special collection. The farmers of Warrnambool are sending in food and clothing. A crowd chased Mr T. Healy through the streets of Dublin yelling "Dirty Healy #" He was severely handled before he escaped. Professor Tjndall, in the course of a speech, declared that the first drop of Ulster blood shed for the sake of men like Archbishops Walsh and Croke, or Mr Healy, will rouse a feeling in England that will sweep the autonomy of Ire land to perdition. The Berlin press attribute the rising in Uganda to the English, supplying the natives with arms. It is expected that all English missionaries will be expelled from Kilima-Njara. The columns of the entire English press are daily crowded with political addresses. The excitement over the elections is increasing. By a landslip at Montesto, in Italy, 30 people were killed or injured. By a railway collision in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, 10 persons were killed.