Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 41, 22 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

♦ A wonderful discovery of tin has been made at Lady Bay, in tbe Huon district (Hobart;. The wash is ten feet deep, and gave threequarters of a pound to the dish. Prince Anton Radziwill, when about to join the Czar's hunting party, suddenly became insane, and ran ' amuck "in the hotel. He shot two servants before the police, hesitating to fire on so exalted a personage, succeeded in stunning him with the nozzle of a fire hose. London experts hold that before the conversion of the debt will be practicable the federation of Australia must either be determined upon or abandoned. In their view the former case would be preferable. A section of the London Tabernacle congregation advocate the Rev. Thomas Spurgeon being appointed to the pas torate in succession to bis father. It is rumoured that Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, will be translated to one of the three English Cardinalates. The Western Australian Government has cabled to Lord Ripon emphatically denying the ill treatment of tbe natives ; but, on the contrary, they^rge that the inhabitants of the colony are most careful of the welfare and interests of the blacks. ... Apropos of the evils of sweating, it has t een stated that a workman, who lived where ten families were suffering trom influenza, altered a iacket for the Duke of Clarence. Next day he was attacked by iDfluenza, and shortly afterwards the Prince himself fell a victim to the attack which led to his untimely end. The story is ridiculed. Mr H. Champion declares that he is able to provide election expenses for one hundred Labour candidates. The totalisator tax bill has passed through the Brisbane Legislative As* sembly. The agent of the Congo Company has arrived at Wadelai with an expedition of 5000 strong. The Times, discussing the seizure of sealers off Copper Island, insists that Russia should be made to apologise for the insults to the British flag, and should indemnify the crews. Bergmann, who attempted to murder Frick. manager of Carnegie's works at the Homestead daring the late strike, has been sentenced to twenty-two years' im* prisonment.