Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 40, 20 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

General Yauoff has been instructed to retire to Ferghana, which lies to the north of the Ihiau-Shan and Pamir Mountains, and is. undi«pul»dly Russian terrjtory. The Novoe Vremya, a semiofficial journal, considers 'that the atti» tude adopted by the British Cabinet points to. a frieridly settlement of the Pamir question. ■'' *V Ad vices received at San Francisco state that 300 persons were killed by aytyphopn at Tokushima, Japan, and. 42,000 houses destroy cd. The Prince of Wales and Mr Labouchere hate become reconciled, and His Soyal Highness is reported to hare said ' Let us e?er be friends. The death is announced of Cardinal Howard:attbeageof63. General Booth is inclined to favour South Africa for his oversea colony, but the question will not be settled for a fortnight. General Booth asks for £50,000, and has proclaimed a self-denial week among the Salvationists. A scholar in Austrian Galicia shot his tutor and a professor, owing to a grudge he : bore, them, and then committed suicide. , ' : The Choetaw Indians killed 16 whites in revenge for being ousted by them from their lands. It is officially announced that the total amount withdrawn during the run on the Birkbeck Bank was a million and a naif pounds. Mr Batlance's withdrawal of the ; demand of cash security deposits from foreign insurance companies; doing busi» ness, in New Zealand has given great satisfaction in London financial circles. Mr W. Hedmond, M. P., warns Mr J. M«rley, Secretary for Ireland, against exciting people of the country by allowo ing the police and bailiffs to seize their cattle at midnight; Sixtyr thousand ponnds have been found ma covent m the City of Mexico where, the Mother Superior had secreted it during the French war, The treasure is claimed by the Government. Busaia is increasing the strength of j the troops stationed at Vladivostock, on | toe Pacific. - The ;Franeo Bnssian convention is denied, and it is stated that the report was circulated for the purpose of maintaining the French public interest in the proposed alliance.