Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 16, 26 July 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

At the Chelmsford Athletic Meeting Mr L. Cuff won the Quarter-mile Hurdles and third prize in 120 hurdles. General Booth states that he is waiting for a report from South Africa before deciding whether he Will send the " submerged tenth " to New Zealand. Major Pollock, of the 3rd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, won the Queen's prize at Bisley with ft score of 277. He also won the silver medal as the highest scorer in the second stage. Dt Koch intends visiting Russia for the purpose of obtaining the cholera bacillus. The London Times considers the situation in Melbonrne extraordinary. It says the spectacle of congested population in a new country is without parallel, and it will be difficult to meet the demands of the unemployed. Land selling has been overdone; and a very similar state of things prevails in Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane. The Washington House of Representatives has passed a Bill authorising retaliatory measures against Canada. The Senate has endorsed the Bill. In consequence of the ravages of cholera, the St. -Petersburg merchants ask that a ukase should be issued suspending business in the districts most affected. Another case ot emall-pox has occurred among the passengers detained at the Brisbane quarantine grounds. k marriage is being arranged between the young King Alexander of Servia and a Russian Grand Duchess.