Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 21, 6 August 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The barque Alice, which left Auck land for New York on Bth Maj, nrrived after a terrible voyage. Off the Horn she got locked in between solid ice on the i> ort SM * e an< * an ' ceoer ß m '' es long and 400 ft in height on the stars board, and only esiaped being crushed with the grcatrst difficulty. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., speaking at Newcastle.' declared that the Labour Part- must oppose the reelection of Mr John Morley in order to secure eight hours for miners, and that the question of autonomy for Ireland 'must be sunk in View of that. At the memorial service on the remains of the late Lord Sherbrooke in St Mnrgaret's, Westminster, many members of the House of Commons were p resent. ■J>r Fnrrar. D.D., delivered a high eulo2iut- on the deceased. Samuel <Ulsopp and Sons, (Limited) «ho* a profit of £85,000 for the year, and pay a dividend of 5 per cent. Guinness and Co. pay a dividend of 15 per cent for the year. The Queensland Government nave ar». ranged to obtain from America two men who have had large experience in the meat preserving trade The Times says the Bisbop of Lincoln hns scored a legal victory. Toleration arid the relaxing of bonds will, it hopes, now assist to keep the peace in the ecclesiastical world. . A. discarded iover in Mexico mur« dered his successful rival and his bride at their wedding ball, and coEaniMed suicide over tue,ir bodies. The member*' of the New Zealand Athletic team. who have stayed behind are to «dm pete at the Berlin Championship Meeting. :; The German Budget shows* a deficit for the year of two millions, mainly due to the railways. The press urge the Government to adopt the Zone system. The Simla correspondent of the Lon* don Tifiies wire*: that the Eussians are occupying the Pamirs in force. They cover the approach to India by the Passes of the Hindoo Koosb, and are holding the country recently abandoned, and enlisting Khirgiz tribesmen. The KUssians " have' three separate forces in the Pamirs, one of them facing Kashgar. Mr Gladstone has almost recovered from his recent severe illness. He has bad a lo_i" interview with Messrs Justin McCarthy and Dillon re Irish matters. The Parnell party demand that there shall be a winter session, nnJ urge that evicted tenants be reinstated ; also, that the Home Rule Bill be introduced.