Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 20, 4 August 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

' ♦ „ The Queen has invited the Emperor of Germanj to dine with her. Mr Gladstone is better, bat will require care for some time. He .has mm* moned his party to attend a meeting on Thursday. It is understood that the nomination of the Right Honorable Arthur Welles* ley Feel as Speaker of the House of Commons will not be opposed. Obituary.— The Earl ot Bathurst. The return of the Hon A. J. Balfour for East Division of Manchester will be petitioned against on the grounds of illegal practices. Mount Etna is again quiet Fieroe cholera riots hare taken place at Tashkend (Russia), and the military at head-quarters were called out to maintain order. They shot 65 of the rioters dead and wounded 200 others. A syndicate of French capitalists has taken orer the concessions granted to the Panama Canal Company along with the assets of the letter. The death is announced, at the Yarra Bend Asylum, Victoria, of ex Inspector Bullen, formerly of New Zealand, The heat in New York is abating. Three hundred deaths hare occurred from sunstroke. The builders ot New York hare struck against a reduction in wages. Fifteen thousand men are affected. The Priry Council has endorsed all the rulings of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the ritualistic case against the Bishop of Lincoln. At the Dereham (Norfolk) Amateur Athletic Meeting, Mr L. A. Cuff won the 100 yards handicap, the hurdle handicap, and was second from scratch in the 300 yards handicap. An oil train was wrecked by col-« lision at Ohio city. Two hundred people had gathered to watch the aeci< dent, when an oil tank exploded, killing twenty and injuring manj others. Prince Bismarck, in his speech at Jena, asserted that the Ministers were the sole cause of his expulsion from office, and that the Emperor was their mouthpiece The Republicans hare gained 100 seats in the French provincial elections.