Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 19, 2 August 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The VossUche Zeitung describes the English missionaries in German Africa as setting about their work with the Bible in one hand and a rifle m the other and demands their expulsion. Sir J". Yogel has replied to the London Investors' Review in a rigorous article denouncing its comments on New Zealand as a pack of lies, and the writer as a pestilent pessimist who undervalues the resources of the Colony, Finally the Colony is uot liable for harbour board loans. Dr Collins, fornerly attached to the Horse Guards, has been convicted of forging promissary notes for LI6OO, and ordered to come up for rsentenee when called upon. The personalty of the late Duke of Devonshire is sworn at under one million eight hundred thousand. It is to be divided among the family, the bulk going to the present Duke. The British Medical Association has decided to admit women Mr. £E. M Stanley c >nsidera the ooncerted action of nations is the only way to suppress slavery, and condemns the AntNSlavery Society. Over a hundred deaths from sunstroke are reported in New York. Trains bare stopped running and the severe heat has decimnted the horses. Business is at a standstill. Tbe Courts of Idaho have decided that the Miners' Union has been guilty of conspiracy, and the rioters will be charged with conspiracy in addition to murder. Information has been received that 15,000 armed Albanians have surrounded Jacova, a town 67 miles ENE. of Scutari, on the White Drin. The Turkish Governor, with five battalions of troops and sis batteries of artillery, has gone to suppress the revolt. The cablegram published in the Times that a writ had been issued against Mr Munro, Agent« General for Victoria claiming £37.500 for calls due in shares held in the Real Estate Bank, Melbourne, created quite a sensation in London. Taylor, of the Land Credit Bank, found guilty of embezzling money, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment and fined LSOOO. Clark, of the same institution, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment and fined LSOO. It is intended that the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament, shall be very brief. Mr Gladstone is confined to his bed with cold It is reported that he had a slight fit at HawarJen early in the week. The year's profits of the Bank of New Zealand amount to £60,000. A further dividend of 5 per cent ha 9 been declared, £15,000 placed to the reserve fund, and £18,000 carried forward.