Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 12, 16 July 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The Financial news asserts that another .£3,000,000 will be required to complete the Manchester Ship Canal. The Players defeated the Gentlemen by ten wickets. The authors of the explosion at Very's restaurant have been traced to Belgium, and their extradition demanded. Porfirio Diaz has been re-elected Presi* dent of Mexico. The Colonial Office has concurred in Mr Munro's proposals for the settlement of the New Hebrides question. - The Rey. John Trnstcot has been elected President of the Free Methodist Congregation.- , - . A fire broke out in a school at Berkhamstead, and escape proving difficult, eight of the children were killed. The Senate has negatived the Silver Bill by a majority of 82, At Manchester, on Wednesday Bather won the Quarter- Mile Hurdles from scratch in 59 45 sec. P. Wood was third. The water at St Gervais was a hundred feet deep. A physician who heard the noise sated 15 persons by a timely alarm. The directors of. the company to which the steamer Mout Blanc belonged have been arrested for criminal negligence in not having the steamer's boilers attended to. — M. Pardon recently informally «ug« Rested to Mr Dibbs that it: was likely France; would cease sending recidivistes, and in the course ot a> few year i i-emoyt those already in New Caledonii, if Eng* land would allow France full control of the New Hebrides. No suggestion has been made for the exchange of the Islands. - .■■'-.' Cholera has made its appearance iv Syria, and is rapidly spreading in Mot* cow.' '.'•'_ •';'.' A man named CoVnwell died mysteri* ously at Warracknabeal recently, and arsenic having been found, in the body, his paramour (Anni^'Brien) and a man named Pratt have b*en on suspicion of causihg^hhkdesth. Mr McNamara, manager of the A'us" tralian Bank, which recently suspended payment, has arrested ■dp the charge of embezzlement. Great interest is felt in tbe matter owing to the fact that several persons who .held high positions in the' political' world Were concerned in the working of the institution* aiid important reyelatibn, 1 are expected.