Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 31, 30 August 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

♦ j Isaac Beranger ani Hiram Sibley, American millionaires, hare been drowned while on a yachting cruise in the western waters of the Dominion. Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Ajreiit General for Tasmania, who is attending the Railway Conference at St Petersburg as an Australian degelate, has been appointed tjcp* president It is reported that ex- Queen Natalie Will be permitted to re«enter Servia. The Dublin City markets and adjoin • ing houses hare been destroyed bj 6 re the damage being estimated at LIOO,OOu. Miles Bros., of New Zealand, hare been registered in London as a limited company, with a capital of LI OO,OOO. Mr Laboucbere, in replying to Mr Gladstone, compliment* him on bis cbiralry in taking upon himself the . responsibility of excluding him from the Gorernment. He also protests that he cares nothing for office, and declares his loyalty and reverence to the leader of the Liberal Party, but at the same time he urges Mr Gladstone not permit Home Rule to swamp the Radical demands. Nineteen of the entombed miners in Bndgend, South Wales, were rescued alive after all hope had been abandoned. Many rumours are current of imminent failures of shipping and mercantile houses, especially one old firm of Austra« lian merchants of high standing, but a strong effort is being made to prerent their suspension. Hawaii claims Cronw»U is Island, which was recently reported to have been -an <• nered by H. M. S. Champion on behalf of Great Britain, and alleges that the Government never transferred part of Pearl Harbour to a foreign Power. The s. s. Ruapehu, from Lyttelton, arrived at Plymouth on the 20th inst. ; all well, and the cargo of frozen meat in good condition At the Broken Hill mines about 200 men are working. The mine owners state that the Unionists will not return therefore they are compelled to procure non-Unionist labour. Those on strike declare this to be impossible, and claim to have beaten the owners. Professor Henry Nettleship, of Oxford University, has died from exposure on Mont Blanc.