Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 52, 18 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Anti-Popery Association lias petitioned the Queen to refuse her assent to Mr Knill'a election as Lord Major of London.< An Anarchist named Francis has been arrested in London on' suspicion of being concerned in the fatal explosion at Very '« restaurant in Paris. The prevalence of famine in the Gil" birt Islands is alleged as the reason for the deportation of the 600 men who were sent to plantations in Central Amer» ica« . ■ « An Evicted Tenants' Commission has been appointed. Justice Mathews is the chairman. The landlord? are not represented.' The Home Rule press commend ite appointment but Tory journals doubt whether the Commission will effect any g °lt w reported that Mr John Morley, Secretary for Ireland, has dismissed Colonel Turner, Divisional. Commissioner of Munster. 1 The latter has protested against his dismissal* and offers proof that he has done his duty . The Congregational ; Conference demands the disendowment of the Slate church in England and Wales. The election for . the Cirencester Dm sion "of Gioucesterßhire resulted in the return of Colonel T. W. O. Master, who polled 4277, the defeated candidate. Mr Haw Lawson, polling 42/4 A creat fire has occurred at Sioux City, lowa, and has rendered 600 people °The Colnmbus celebration is marked bY some splendid pageants. In one of them an immense symbolic electric car, containing 3000 electric lights* was a prominent feature; A strike has occurred at Carmaux in Southern France, and has been accompanied by serious disorder. Troops were sent to repress the disorder, but the Major, who is a Socialist, declines to billet them. Many members of the Chamber ot Deputies support his action. Tte Chin rising is becoming serious, and several British stations are imperilled Two thousand Chins are making preparation to attack Fort White. The British force is small, and the countrj is : difficulty for the movement of troops. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Kussia is contemplating an effort to form an alliance Austria, fearing that France is too weak tb'yield effective support, and is beside drifting into Socialism. A court martial has been held into the recent mutiny among the Life Guards at Windsor, and the result has been that Private Marshall lias been sen* fenced to 16 months', imprisonment, and dismissed from ihe regiment, for inciting his comrades to stick together. . The tfiench troops Have again defeated the Dahomyuns, near Abomey. Their loss was only 24 killed. v\ v , It is reported in Berlin this city that the tone of Lord Rosebery, British For* eign Secretary, with regard to the Pamir difficulty, is so mild that Eussia believes Bnglandihiis no intention ot intervening in the matter. ..:'..' . • . Eussia is seeking to induce the Porte to grant a free passage" through the Dardanelles to Bussian warships flying a commercial flag, and to close the straits to the Powers. Great Britain demands an equivalent concession. - Mr F. B Suttor, Minister for Public Instruction, speaking at the opening of a public school, defended the school system of New South Wales from adverse comments, especially the reference to religious instruction which was make at the Church Congress at Folkestone. In the supreme Court, Arnold Mathew John Scott, John Shirley, and J ohn F. Martin, directors of the Australian Banking Corporation, were acquitted on a charge of conspiracy m connection with the management of that institution.