Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 44, 29 September 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

It is officially announced that the Marquis of Ripon supports the New Zealand Ministry in the dispute with the Governor, and directs Lord Glasgow to appoint the members of the Legislative Council as desired by the Government. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, in his decision respecting the New Zealand Legislative Council appointments, does not censure Lord Glasgow for the position be took up, He considers that his attitude is partly on the lines followed by Lord Onslow, but advises him that the demands of the Cabinet should be fully met. Miss Smith, governess, and others were convicted of the charge of forging the will of Mr Park, of Addington. be* queathing Smith £20,000 if his son did not marry her. Smith was sentenced to ten years, and her accomplices Maklethwhite to seven, Paul five, Ingram six, and Allison 12 months. The evidence showed that tiie woman had obtained strong influence over Park, but she could not prove she had been engaged to the son. News from Southern Arabia reports that the Turkish troops, after a battle lasting a whole day, defeated the rebel Arabs of Yemen with enormous loss. It is believed the country will not be pacified. It is reported Col. Yanoff will be reinforced by 12,000 men in the Pamirs next springCount Millenburg, of Bavaria, while on a yisit to Philadelphia, shot himself with a revolver in a bathroom, which was filled with gas. Love troubles were the cause. A Toronto lady accidentally fell from the suspension bridge over the Niagara river, but her feet were caught in the lowest girder, and she hung there, in imminent peril of death, till rescued by an Irish clergyman who was on the bridge. An unseemly dispute marred a vast prayer meeting in the Tabernacle, held in support of the Rev Thos. Spurgeon's succession to the Pastorate. Mr Streeter, the well-known authority on precious stones, in a letter to the Field. says Australia is pregnant with every description of precious stones, and predicts that in the near future it will become an El Dorado of commercial enterprise. The Russians have seized a seventh British sealer in Behring Straits. Twenty four saddles were cut about with knives by the First Life Guards, at Windsor, because the squadron was obliged to parade on account of dirty saddles. Some of the men were noisy, and hootei their officers.