Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 22, 9 August 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

• The Viceroy of India proposes to send Ihe Commander- in Chief, Lord Roberts, to Jellalabad, to meet the Ameer of Afghanistan, with a strong escort. " A conspiracy has been discovered in Belgrade, haying for its object the de position of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro. The Anarchists are circulating throughout Paris 100.000 placards, d • rectinp the extermination of the judges and jurymen who condemned Ravacnol and other Anarchists. The English Parliament will probably prorogue on August 27th until the middle of January. The Pope has issued nn Encyclical that the formulae of Freemasonry is subversive of religion. The Sultan of Morocco desires to resume negotiations with Sir C. Euan Smith after Mr Gladstone has assumed office. The English press generally eulogise Sir George Grey's services to the colomer The Dail.v News asserts he prevented n State Charcli in the colonies, nnd saved South Australia and New Zealand when Governor of those colonies, from land grabbers. The Pali Mall Gazette considers Sir George a reformer of remarkable prescience and boldness in treating humanitarian matters. Jaeger, the cashier of Messrs Rothschtlds at Frankfort, win absconded after embezzling a larue amount of the firm's money, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Twelve accomplices of Jaeger have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment. Intelligence from Venezuela states that severe fightine has taken plnce between the Government troops on>l the rebels in the vicinity of Caracas. General Crespo, the insurgent leader, is reported to nave been killed •' A dynamite machine destroyed part of the* Pigott Hotel, Limerick. The reason of the outrage is that the proprietor supported the Tories in the recent election. Mr Gladstone will speak in the debate on the amendment of no confidence, following the seconder, Mr Burt. A London Telegram says the Round Hill Gold Mining Company of Otngo has been registered with a capital of £50,000, and the Waikato Riverside Estate Com. pany has been registered with a capital of £20,000. , . The Council of English Jn^es ad7»?e drastic reforms in legal procedure favourable to suitors; they advise that the Court of Review on criminal sentences is unsuccessful, as the appellants are liable to have tl'eir sentences increased ; they also advice a special cause list for mercantile cases with special judges, Mr Blake, M.P., of Caaida. in Ins speech at tue Highty Club, London contended that the experience of Canada showed that the rivalry of creeds had proved a safeguard to autonomy. The Privy Council has rejected (heap peal of Commodore Sir Baldwin Walker. of H M. S. Emerald, in the case of Baird v. Walker, in which the la'.ter m March, 1891, -was mulcted in damages for closing Bird's lobster factories in Newfoundland. Tbe town of Rzeezyca, 150 miles south of Minsk, on the Dnieper, in Kus« sia, was wilfully set on fire and destroyed Fourteen people were burnt to death and 2000 rendered homeless. At the Amateur Athletic Meeting in Sydney, on Saturday, Moroeth, of Wei lington, won the FiPe«mile Cross-country Championship in 28min 9«ec. He led from start to finish. The S.S. Ruahine arrived at Hobsxrt on Saturday, from London, yia Cape, and sailed again at midnight for New Zealand, She has 20 passengers for Australian ports, and 80 for New Zealand- Sir Wm. Jervois is a passenger. A severe earthquake has been expen . enced in Chiapa; a State in the soutbenst of Mexico, and San Cristobal, the capital, lias been destroyed. The Emperor considers that his yacht Meteor, notwithstanding ber four defeats, which he attributes to her having to give time allowance and ill luck, is the fastest yacht in »he world. H. M.~S. Curacoa his annexed a portion of the Pagopago Harbour as a coaling station. A filibustering expedition has left Key West in Florida to effect the freedom of Cuba Island. Sir Charles Dilke proposes to introduce early next session a motion to the effect that Egypt be neutralised under a European guarantee.

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