Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 2 July 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A reference in the Queensland Parliament to a plot to murder Sir 8. Griffith and prominent members of the Legislative Assembly has created muck amazement, i in London, and is looked upon as incredible. { Sir Kichnrd Temple, in the National BeTiew. supports Admiral Scott's suggestion For a Pacific Islands recruiting deport under Imperial control, the recruit- : ing grounds to embrace Lonsdale, Moresby, Normanby, Goodenou^k. Ferguson, and Solomon Island*, and Co exclude the New Hebrides. Sir G Berry's telegram to the Associated Banks stating it had been agreed thnt they should tender for the Victorian loan saved the situation and greatly influenced the Stock Exchange. City financiers hope the narrow escape^ from failure will be a warning to Victoria. Messrs Goschen, Akers-Douglas Lowe. Sir AI. Hicks Beach and Baron de Worms, will be returned unopposed. Lord Tenny son, in a letter to the Times snys he lores Mr Gladstone, but hates the policy ,ie as token np of late years. Bismarck's position is critical owing to the hostility of the Government and a Tiolent section of the press. The latter declares his utterances amount to trea* ion, bat Bismarck makes no reply. The Vossisehe Zeitung says the conflict wilh General Caprivi may yet end in a tragedy Two thousand cases of kerosene were burned in Lasseter's bond, in Sydney. The insurance, L 2500, is scattered over twenty offices. The Qneen gives Mr Dibbs an audience on Friday at Windsor. It is reportad that ho will be knighted if he chooses to accept the dignity. A hundred thousand people are leaving the famine districts of Russia.