Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 47, 6 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

H. M. Stanley says that there are 12,000,000 natives in Uganda and the neighbouring countries who would welcome the arrival of English produce in Central Africa if a railway were made to the coast. If the opening up of themtenor is to be abandoned then the cession of Heligoland to Germany was useless. The postponement of the railway will be disastrous to humanity. Mr Stanley, speaking at bwansea, warns England that if Uganda is abandoned altogether and occupied by France, Khartoum will soon follow. Lord Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland, was coldly received on his arrival in Dttbhu. The officials ©f the castle made their duties an excuse for refraining from welcoming him. Count D'Aubigny, French Consul in Morocco, was well received on his arrival in Fez. _, The Army Bill secures to Germany 90,000 additional men annually, besides 53 batteries of artillery. There will also be some increase of the cavalry. Count Kalnoky has informed the Austrian Chamber of Delegations that Mr Gladstone would continue Lord Salisbury's foreign policy. Mr Renan will have a national funeral, in Paris and his remains will be ultimately placed in the Pantheon. The International Monetary Conferenre meets at Brussels on November 22. Eighteen nations, including the leading European powers, will be represented, It is stated that 500 Gilbert Islanders have been shipped to Mexico, where they will be sold to the planters. Six Stundists, found converting peasants in Podolia to their sect, were sent to Siberia. Austria is increasing her military expenditure by half a million. The Welcb coal and iron works are suspending work, owing to the depression. Five mines in the Midlands are idle, and are reducing wages. The Bankruptcy Court ordered the Rev Mules, whose insolvency was caused by gambling, to explain his proceedings and account for the assignment of his assets. The Rev. James (? Thomas) Spurgeon is ill with gout in the throat, and his condition is critical. The Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China reports that it has transferred L 125.000 from reserve to profit and loss to meet the losses incurred by fraud in Bombay. A scheme of reconstruction in necessary to secure fresh capital, though the bank is still sound. Jfyr continuation 9F Reading Matter set fourth page.).