Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35, 8 September 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

♦ ■ The London Daily Chronicle's Cairo correspondent says the British troops will evacuate tbe city, except the garrison of the citadel.at the end of the year, and withdraw to Alexandria. The French Mission in Fez (Morocco) aims at the establishment cf French and Russian vice-Consuls there. At the celebration of Arbor Day 40.00U people marched in procession in Chicago ind 20,000 in New York. The Archduke, Franz Ferdinand of Austria, is betrothed to Princess Clemen tine, a daughter of tbe King of the Belgians. At the trial of Mrs O'Brien for the Warracknabea (Victoria) murder, the Judge summed up strongly against the female prisoner. The iury, after tiro hours' consideration, returned a yerdict of guilty of wilful murder in the case of Mrs O'Brien, and that Pratt waa guilty of being an accessory after the fact; The body of a rabbiter named Robert Rake, has been fouud in a hut at Gunbar Station, Victoria, almost eaten up by his own dogs Deceased evidently had been dead for sometime. He had been drink* mg 'heavily. The Australian. steamship owners not only intend to reduce seamen's wages but efforts are being mnde to reduce overtime rates paid to wharf laborers. It is understood that the Steam Owners' Association has resolved to reduce wages £1 per month and that similar resolutions have been adopted by the Victorian and South Australian Associations.