Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 16 August 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

♦ Wolff, a Leipzig banker, has been sen tenced to 10 years for misappropriation of £220,000. The rebels under General Hernandez haye captured Bolivar, and 1000 of the Government troops were killed including four generals. A Japanese warship, Genkaimarn, foundered in a typhoon, and 60 of the crew were drowned. News is to hand in London from West Africa that the natives are greatly disturbed at the numerous expeditions in their country. It is feared that 20agents of the Katanga expedition hare been killed and that the steamer Baernet has been captured by the natives. The tribes on the western bank of the Con^o are in revolt and three agents have been killed at Njangwe. The stations on the Upper Lomani have been destroyed and it is feared that the Arabs in ihe neighbourhood of Stanley Falls have turned hostile. Soldiers have been dispatched up the Aruwmi River. The Berlin Post asserts that two months ago Knssia requested China not to send troops into the ['amir district in order that the labours of the Delimitation Commission should not be disturbed. Only 50 Russians were engaged in ihe recent conflict at Aktash. The Paris correspondent of (he London Times states that the Moorish Ministers who took rart in the agitation against the British Commissioner at Fez. and «ho prevented the Sultnn from agreeing !b the terms of Sir Kuan Smith each received 10,000 dollars from the French agent. M. Sonhart, who is chief wire puller, is leaving Morocco on a prolonged absence, which means a lull in the French activity. During the naval manoeuvres at Home the ships Naiad and Apollo grounder at Berehaven, hut were refloated The Arethusa'a propeller drove a hole in one of the torpedo boats, and (wo per sons wers injured. On another torpedo boat an explosion took place, and three were injured. Grave details are coming to hand at Calcutta of the Arab raising. Tho TJsbee raising in Mainena has been suppressed by the Ameer's troops A mad wolf raided a Russian villase, 30 Deraons besides many horses, cattle, nnd sheep being bate". The village is now full of persons who have gone raving mad.