Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 34, 6 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

♦- > General Booth admits that he is ur> to ■ his neck in flnancial difficulty, but still . relies on the public to provide £30,000 a j ear for" Darkest England." He states r lie has already expended £165,000 on the f scheme, which he believes, that once the . corner is turned, will prove a great busi- > j ness success. ! A fire broke out on board the ship Auckmounlnin, loading at Greenock England, for New Zealand ports, and before the flames could l>e extinguished tbe vessel was almost completely destroyed. I wenty tons of powder stored in the magazine exploded, nnd windows for miles around were broken. The captain and the crew escaped. The Campania, a new vessel for the Cunard Steam Ship Company, has been launched at Govan, on the left bank of the Clyde. She has a displacement of 19,000 tons when loaded, and is n< -arly as large as the Great Eastern. The suspension of the London and General Bunk (Limited), a small concern, has pulled down the Liberator Permanent Building and Investment Societj, of 20, Budge Row, E.G. Irelnnd is begin ing to show agrarian unrest, and the evicted tenants are again agitating for reinstatement. Tne Kent and Surrey Building Society of Woolwich, in which the Arsenal workers are the chief investors, has failed owing to the secretary having absconded with £40,000 of the society's funds. A scaffolding attached to a building in course of erection in Peru on the north side of the " Golden Horn," on the summit of the hill above GalatP, and Tophane, collapsed, nnd fifteen workmen were killed. The architect has been arrested.