Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 15 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

One hundred armed citizens prevented the landing of the Normania's cabin passengers on Fire Island (New York), which has been purchased by the Government as a quarantine station. Pickets were stationed by the residents and «ignals arranged to notify any attempt to land, and had the authorities insisted on them landing the hotel would hare been fired. Information from Western Africa states that the French residents in Benin complain of the English occupying the Benin coast with missionaries, and A.b beokuta being kept in a state of siege. A heary ran has taken place on tha Birkbeck Bank, Southampton Building. Chancery Lane, owing to the failure of the companies with which Mr Jabez S. Balfour is connected. The Union Bank of London has guaranteed an advance of £1.000,000 if necessary. Mr Gladstone, addressing a meeting in Wales, said he hoped, next session, to gire some earnest desire to deal with the disestablishment of the church in Wales, but the people must exhibit patience. Lord Roberts, Command<tr*in«Chief in India, has arranged a meeting with the Ameer of Afghanistan at Jelalabad, at the head of the Kliyber Pass, to discuss the frontier difficulty and the .Russian advance of the Pamirs. The bn&abtae Barah PiJe recently sailed to Chesterfield Island to load guano. The Governor of New Caledonia notified the captain that the island belonged to France, and that no one had a right to remove guano without the permission of the French Goternment. Many of the victims in the Boston railway accident were frightfully scalded or mutilated. After the collision the debris caught fire, and added to the horror of the situation. Mr Labouchere, in a letter to the Times, warns Mr Gladstone that the Radicals expect Radical legislation. Mayor-General Feilding, brother to the Earl of Denbigh, vouches for the efficacy of the miracles at Laurdes, the well-known resort of pilgrims in the South of France. He states that he has by personal enquiries satisfied himself that cases of cancer and phthisis haye been eared. A quantity of photographers' chemicals exploded in an establishment in Paris. Four persons were burnt to death and many injured. Numerous arrests hare been made at Warsaw owing to a plot against the Czar.