Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 50, 13 October 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

♦ ; Mr H, M. Stanley, in a letter to the Times, says there is nothing in the Berlin conference to prevent any power occupying Ugunda in the eyent of England evacuating the country. City men have asked the Lord Mayor to convene a meeting to protest against the evacuation. , ■ It is believed Chili has placed a three million loan in London. Cholera has appeared at Syegedm in Hungary and Yemen in Arabia. The Chins haye revolted near Fort White. Many Sepoys were murdered, and it is feared they will attack Dimlo. The St Petersburg press pubhsh reports implying that Colonel Yanoff maintains small garrisons along the new frontier, commanding one of the three possible routes to India. The Mayor and Council of Dublin were present at the demonstration in memory of Mr Parnell. A letter published in the Daily News describes Melbourne as in an awful plight, and says that its poverty is only paralleled by that to be seen in London. A youth named Morton shot his stepfather dead at Morpeth, N.S.W., during a quarrel. Sir G. B. Dibbs is still negotiating with the Postmaster-General 'of New Zealand respecting the subsidy to the San Francisco mail seryice. As showing the value of the steamers making Sydney their terminal port, it is stated that during the last twelve months over £41,---000 was sent here in connection with the vessels. The Chinese are engaged in a dispute with the French as to the boundaries of Tonquin. They are invading the latter conntry, burning villages, and helping the piratical bands known as the Black Flags. The positson is becoming critical. A portion of Carnegie's mills at Homestead was dynamited, but the bomb was defective, and the damage was not extensive. Business in New York has been suspended for four days, to celebrate the discovery of America by Columbus. Great prairie fires are raging in Dakota, A hundred farms have been distroyed. Another dynamite outrage is reported from Homestead, ia which two non* Unionists were injured.