Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 1 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Margins of Bipon v the fir«t Secretary for the colonies who persona ly Son the Agents-General of thecolotin plate works hare stopped m Wales owing to the McKinley Tariff in the United States, and 10,000 men hare been thrown out of wort. The Treasury is willing to allow aus tralian mints to com silver tokens, special "Australia, if the colonies «*«%* desire it or to con a British token ot far short of tho ■. Treasurer's estimate The conference in London between bir G B TD °I« and Mr.&oschen and other financial authbfUier is referred to as it'sfAtor* and. the opinion was ex* "".leauhit a sound basis exists for he Sontersion of the colony's, debt on the arrival of a favourable opportunUy. • r Ne W9 from the Islands states that a British Protectorate lias been proclaimed Jrir 'the whole of tl.e Ellice Group, and that the Protcctorate>ill be established by Captain Gibson, of H.M.S. Curacoa, who was to leave Suva, on August 17th for the Group. . . .. . , M, Perrett, in custody on suspicion of fceini a Ku.«sian spy, will be brought before the Police Court to-morrow. In the meantime the authorities are developing his photo plates. Tro express trams running between Ostend and Antwerp collided near Brus. •els. Two person* were killed and 30 in *°The rescue, parties at the Park Slip Colliery hare abandoned the work, finding it impossible to recover any more bodies ; 107 have been taken cut of the .General ßooth denies the accusation of living m luxury, and accuses the Canadian officers of the Saltation Army of intrigue. He does not believe the ronk and file will join in it, but it is stated that the revolt against his authority is spreading. . The Daily Telegraph says Kedfero, Alexander and Co's estate is expected to to yield bad results in liquidation. VanderbuVs death complicated matters, as it caused the withdrawal of capital invested by him in the business. The receiving order was made on the debtor's own petition. The Stock Exchange had recarded the firm as weak for some time. The Sultan's troops inflicted a crushing defeat on the Augherites, and captured their stores and burned several villages, including that belonging to Imam, who commanded the rebels and afterwards escaped. Eighty of the troops were killed, chiefly "by an ambuscade prepared for them. A Berlin banker and two guides were killed by falling over a precipice in the Alps. i . Six thousand troops are employed in thoroughly stamping out brigandage, Which has so long been the curse of Sicily. There is a further deficit in the revenue derived by the Pope from Peter's pence of four million lire (about £160,000).