Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The French treasurer of the T ganda mission declares that if the British leave the country, the Germans will replace them, and the result will be a massacre of Christians. It suggests that King Mwanga should be pensioned under a British protectorate. Cardinal Lavigerie is in favour of the British taking control of Uganda, if they compensate the missioners. Sir E. C. N, Braddon, in an article in Black wood's Magazine on the Tasmanian sitverfields, states that the Tasmanian mines are regarded as more phenomenal in wealth tbau those at Broken Hill, and considers that it is likely there will be quite 60,000 people on the Mt Zeehan and Dundas fields before the end of the year. The London County Council has decided to try the experiment of dispensing with contractors, and is organising a direct municipal staff ot workers under trade union conditions. It is reported that the Gladstone Go« vernment in 1885, ordered Sir Robert George Hamilton (at present Governor of Tasmania), wbo was then under Secretary to Ireland, to draft the scheme of Home Rule for Ireland . The Ber-'in Post says the deficit in the Prussian Budget next year will be four million. * A hundred persons, suspected of belonging to a league for the purpose ot murder and robbery, have been arrested at Palermo, in Sicily The number of deaths recorded in Hamburg yesterday was 53. A new treatment, by which perspiration is produced, is reported to have been very effective in staying the fatal results. The Spanish vintage is both good in quality and quantity. The cereal crop, however, is deficient, and it will be necessary to import L 4.000.000 worth. The Canadians accuse the United States of prompting the seizure of sealers by Russia. Messrs Beyts and Craig, trading as Beyts, Craig and Co., steamship agents. of Old Broad street, E.C., and who were acting as agents in London fora Bombay firm, have each been sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of forging bills of lading to a considerable amount. The Rev. Allen, Secretary of the Mar riageLaw Reform Association, urges the Agents General to agitate for tha reform of the marriage laws The London Daily News, referring to the reported withdrawal of deposits from the Australian Banks, states that the rumour originated in the London officer of some of the Northern Banks through whose hands some deposit receipts were passed for collection. The banks, it says, are very strong in the matter of cash, and the position in Australia is safe.