Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 27, 20 August 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The Vossische Zeitung suggests that King Leopold of Belgium should abandon the Congo to France. At a great meeting held in Madras resolutions were passed urging the Govern went to declare how thej will prevent a silrer panic. , . It is reported in London that a bank connected with the KnsU owing to the fall in silver has been compelled to apply to the Bank of England for assistance, which was refused. . It is believed that the Colonial Office will not reto Lord Glasgow's decis.on with reference to the appointment of additional members to the Legislative Council of New Zealand. It is reported that Lord Carnngton w ill be raised to an eurldom. Eleven persona were burned to death and several injured by a fire in a model lodging house at Tredegar.m Monmouth Many Protestant notables were present at the invostiture of Archbishop Vaug» The miners at Nashville, Tennessee, made a second attack upon the prison, and after a desperate fight, defeated the warders and released two hundred conTicts. Twelve were killed and twenty wounded in the affray. Troops are being massed, and the wlio^e district is in a state of turmoil. The miners are blow ing ud railways with dynamite to pretent the arrival of the soldiers. The striker* at Buffalo were charged and dispersed by the troops. It is feared that the drivers and stokers on the New York Central line will also strike.