Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 43, 27 September 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

•. Kewi'-bM; been required m .London that serious labbur , riots have taken place in Saint- Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands West Iddies, belonging to Denmark The mob overpowered the troops, sacked tfor houses of the leading citizens, and maltreated :women. A large number of residents sought refuge t)n board the ships ly ipg in harbour, .Rein forcementswere sent from Saint Croix, and quelled the disturbance. The'Rtisßian papers are r making bitter attach jo> i&erinariy. This attitude is attributed to Count Shiskin, who was recently appointed to assist M. de Giers in the Fpreigu Office, and who has virtual control of the department owing to the illness of the latter* Mr Allen, secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association, in a letter to the Times,, agitates in favour of marriages lawful!} celebrated in one province being accounted valid within tbe Empire. ; The Corporation of Dublin has, by a majority of 17 to 16, rejected the pro-, posal that addresses should be presented to Lord Houghton (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) and Mr Jobn Morley (Irish Secretary) on their official entry into the city. A steam launch, which was convening Sir Cecil Smith, Governor of tl^e Straits Settlements, on iiis return from the MalarPenirisula, where he had been decorating the Sultan of Perak with the Order; of Commander of St Michael and St George, foundered in the Kinta River. His Excellency had a narrow escape of drowning. . , ■ ■ . Statistics submitted at tbe Pan Presby tenan Alliance now sitting in Toronto shows that the alliance represents twenty million Christians. It was proposed to add a third section to the executive which will include Australia: The Duke of Sutherland, whose death was announced on Friday, was attacked by a chill and gastric troubles and died in a few hours at his residence, Dun* robin Castle, on Dornoch Firth, in Scotland. ; . . The London Times, discussing the proposal df the Church Missionary Society, urges the British East African Company to strain every nerve to renier interference in Uganda by the British Government unnecessary. Complaints have been receiyed from French residents in Assam that the Siamese; ate extending their frontier eastwards, and thus diyerting the trade which belongs to Assam and Cochin China. Strong diplomatic action is urged. / The Ameer of Afghanistan is reported to have posted a notice on the gates of Jelalabad warning the tribes that he has sent for two brigades of British troops to guard the banks of the Amoo-Darya river, for the purpose of repelling the Russian?, whom he describes as tyrant nical Kaffirs (infidels). Further Russian reinforcements to the Pamir expedition have passed through Tashkend, the military headquarters of Russia in Turkistan. A severe storm was experienced in Sydney on Saturday, morning, and the wind reached the velocity of 120 miles an hour. The loss ol two lives is reported.. m mmm^^