Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 33, 3 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

» Lord Bosebery has resigned the Presidency of the Imperial Federation League owing to his acceptance of the portfolio of Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. The Hon Edward Stanhope succeeds him. In his paper, Truth, Mr Labouchere comments on the correspondence between Mr Gladstone and himself respecting his exclusion from the Ministry. He declares that the Queen has no risht to interfere vrilk Mr Gladstone in his choice of colleagues, and says his ostracism is due to his notion regarding the royal grants, and Her Majesty's disapproval of Truth's genial banter on her relatives. The article expresses great admiration for the Queen's usual constitutional fairness, the excellence of her private life, and her preferring quasi privacy to royal pomp for the benefit of a little lot of people of so» called society. He declares that Her Majesty wrote to Lord Rosebery during the Marquis of Salisbury's Premiership, urging him to accept a seat in the Cabinl as Foreign Secretary under Mr Gladstone. Evidence was given at the trial in Paris of the Marquis de Moris that threats had been made to hang the Kotnschilds and massacre the Jews in Russia. The prevalence of diarrhoea in Lond on is causing a scare. The British Post Office authorities recommend tiie reduction of the Australian postage rate to 2d, and suggests that Id be the rate for post cards. Mr Henniker Heaton is jubilant, and strongly urees the introduction of penny postage for ocean« borne letters at once. The Novoe Vremya says that the Russian Treasury is exhausted,- and a new issue of paper money, and an income tax are necessary to meet the emergency. Unionists shot four non»Unionists employed on a New Orleans railway. The leaders of Carnegie's strike have sur* rendered to the authorities. Notice of motion has been given in the New South Wales Assembly condemning Mr Scliey's conduct in bringing un founded charges against the .Railway Commissioners, and suggesting that he should be called on lo resign,