Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 8 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Ber H- D. French read a paper at the Church Congress in London on the neglect of religious education in the colonies, speaking to which Bishop Moorhouse said he was delighted to see that the Victorian legislative Assembly had discovered the mistake, and taken the first step towards religious education by passing a resolution to restore the name of the Lord to the reading books whence it had been excluded by bastard Liberal isjpa. There was a large meeting last Thursday ol shareholders in the Mercantile Sank to hear Sir, M. Davies' explanation. A scene of great' disorder ensued. The chairman declined to put (he motion desiring the Government to prosecute the director's, or the amendment deprecat ing such a course. The meeting dispersed amid uproar. Some remarkable stories are current respecting the cxdenditure by the London Seamen's and Firemen's Union. £1400 is Baid to have been embezzled, and LI 1,000 spent on salaries at the head office. Only L2OOO was spent on the relief of shipwrecked men. sick and death claims, but large sums were laid out in' advertising by Wilson, the secre* tatyv The Catholic churches in Poland arc being closed. Ten deaths ; from cholera occur daily in Btt.da ■'Pestb, owing to tb,e use ot bad ' river water. The mob refuse to allow ihe bouses, to be disinfected. Six. of a band of desperadoes, known as • the Daltori gang,' robbed two banks in CofEeyville, Kansas, killing four clerks and frounding three citizens. Five of the robbers*, including' Dalijon, were killed while escaping, The Times' American correspondent says' Cleveland is carrying the Southern States where the Democrats are coalescing with the ' people's party.' ■ Mr Gladstone has been presented with the Freedom of Liverpool. ■ TftjflFHirth, Catholic Bishop ofCen. . |f al .African has forwarded a letter complaining that Protestants ore ifcow the xaasterx in XTgnnd», and thut tlj,e arms supplied by t^e English, linve ruined the country, Bioting is frequent,, and the Catholics Are daily outraged, tortured, and starred. North of Lake JNyanza