Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

At the Paris athletic meeting last Saturday Batger won the 100 Metres Hurdles Handicap, with L. Gaff second. Bred in won the 400 Metres Flat, with P. Wood second. In the 400 Metres Hurdles, Batger, who finished second, beat the French record. The Victorian Mutual Building So« ciety has suspended payment. The halfjearly meeting wns held only last week, biit no dividend was declared, allhoujjh £12,000 was carried forward to next year's account. Heavy withdrawals had taken place, and the Dircc tors fell themselves bound to suspend payment, at all event for the time. The position of the Society has not been disclosed, but the Directors declare that the institution is perfectly sounr!, A large fire is raging in St John's, New Brunswick. The Government offices, Roman Catholic. Protestant, and Methodist Churches, the colleges, the Masonic Temple, and hundreds of factories and houses have gone. The Parliament Building and Government House are threatened — in fact the whole city is endangered. Three thousand people have been rendered homeless. • The Cholera has broken out in Samara. In Astrukhau (he ravages are serious, and riots have taken place owing to the police endeavouring to prevent the popu« lace frcm fleeing from the city. Brigandage is said to be rampant in various parts of the Kepublie ami on the Argentine frontior. The cavalry who nre operating against the outlaws have killed 31 persons. Kussia is reported lo be advancing on Pamir, and encroaches on Afghanistan by the Murshan Hirer. A writ has been served on Sir Graham Birry for Wleeally sitting and voting in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is reported Lord Salisbury has requested President Harrison to explain the seizure of the steamer Copuiltan ana other sealers on the Pacific coast. Dairy made butter is quoted at Is 6d, and taclory at Is 8d in Sydney. The Bradford (London) wool market has not improved, and crossbred s and tops show a slight decline. Merinos are weaker. From Bordeaux reinforcements nave been shipped to Dahomey. The Dahomcyans have captured Bagry and destroyed the Catholic missions ; they have also burnt three priests and three nuns The French troops eventually defeated the natives.