Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 39, 17 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Addressing a meeting st Birmingham Mr J. Chamberlain, MR, advocated that when a two- thirds maiority of any trade desired to prevent their shop keep ing open longer than ten hours per day, they should have power to apply to the City Council to enforce their decision. A true bill has been found against Thos. Neil, alia* Cream, for four murdera bj poisoning. Theoases were known as the Lambeth poisoning cases. Mr W. B. Perceval has inspected the wording of Mr ■yralters' invention of improved cooling chambers for the car* riuge of dairy produce on board the s.s. Nairnsliire. The trialwas regarded as successful. . The Glamorganshire Building Society has suspended payment, owing to the large embezzlements of the fnnds by the secretary, who has absconded. The deficiency is stated to be £20,000. , ■ The Proclamation declaring the Irish National League dangerous to society has been revolted. The amount of deposits in the London Birkbeck Bank yesterday . was £21,000. Though a slight run continues, under a million has been withdrawn. The Daily Chronicle says the state» ment that West Australian settlers are making slaves of the natives requires an answer, f- ■'-'• ' '■■"■■" '- • Madame Mjelba's divorce suit has been settled privately. The Duke of Orleans whose name was- mentioned, in connection with the proceedings, will shortly leave oii a 'three jeare' sporting tour in Africa and Asia. ' Mr Gladstone has intimated that Welsh' disestablishment and disendowmentwill go .together. He is credited with stating that the Welsh farmers have great reason to complain, as the average reduction in rents in England have been over three times as large as In Wales, and that this is a matter which will require the attention of .the Government. The seftlefr seized by the Russians at Cooper Island were more than thirty miles from land. Lord B,osebery,. Pqr. eign Secretary, ,ii communicating with the Government of Canada relative to the seizure of sealers in the Behring Sea by the Russians. The Labour Defence Committee, numbering eight, including Sleath and Fer« gusson, the leaders, were arrested at Broken Hill (Sydneyj,to*dliy amid great excitement. The nature of the charge has not been allowed to be made public. The Magistrate also instructed the police to remove the pickets from the mines. >The pickets number between 800 and 1000 men. Fbiday, September 16. In the Council the L&nd Bill was. read a second time and referred to the Waste Lands Committee. ' ' ' Id the House the Industrial Conciliation Bill was debated at length, and the third reading carried. The House went into Committee of Supply, and the Education vote was under consideration whin the House rose.