Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 11 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Duke of Sutherland has refused admission to Tittensor Chase to the Dowager Duchess |of Sutherland. The latter alleges it waa the laßt wish of her husband that she should be domiciled there, and it w expected legal proceedings will be. taken in the matter. Professor Pickerrog, of Vulpaiaiso, has discovered. 40 small lakes in Mars. Herr Loewy, a Berlin banker, has been sentenced to 2_ryears' imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy. Harry Farman, an Englishman, has won the French bicycle championship. The /remains of the late Joseph Erneste Renan. the great French ohilologist, were temporarily interred to-day at Montmartre. The principal official, literary, artistic, and scientific gentlemen of Pans attended. M. Bourgeois. Minister of Education, and others pronounced an euloginm. . ; . • the tabernacle requests Eor T. Spurgeon to succeed Bey Josiah Pierson in Jane for six months, when a definite selection will be made.. . A New York telegram informs us that a house occupied by 40 non Unionists at Homestead was destroyed by dynamite. No lives were lost. Mgr Hirth, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, believes that the evacuation of Uganda by the British East Africa Company will result in a repetition of the Soudan disaster. Captain Lugard, in a letter to the London Times, states that the commercial, political and philanthropic interests of Uganda requires its retention by the British. Evacuation, he considers, will increase slavery and anarchy, and also entail the massacre of Protestant natives . The retention, Captain Lugard says, would be neither difficult nor expensive. A ghastly discovery has been made in Whitechapel (London), where five human skeletons have been found in the cellar of a house. All together 64 horses died from exhaustion in the race between Vienna and Berlin. Lord Houghton, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, refused to accept an address from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce supporting the union of the Empire on the ground oi its controversial character. News has been received in New York that General Creapo has occupied Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The President and his Ministers have abandoned the country. The Court circular announces that the Queen had a sincere regard and great admiration for the late Lord Tennyson. The King of Dahomey led his troops in the recent engagement with the French. The Amazons penetrated to within 10 paces of the French guns, and large numbers Were killed.. The army has fled in a northerly direction, leaving their ammunition behind. The French troops are now marching on Abomey . Serious riots have taken place at Buda Pesth owing to the refusal of the mob to allow the cholera infected houses to be disinfected. During the melee many persons were wounded. Isolated cases of cholera continue to be reported in the provinces.