Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 22 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Dr Scott Sanders, a retired army office) in London, who was recently committee for trial on a charge of forgery, has beer declared bankrupt. His liabilities amouni to £100,000. ■ . . Lord Onslow is organising a com mitts* in London, to make full enquiry intc General Booth's social scheme. Lore Oublow himself will be a member of th< committee. Lord Onalow, in the course of an interview by a representative of tht Pall Mall Gazette, said that New Zealane offered the best advantages for the establishment of a Salvation Army colony, the homestead law in that Colony being favourable. . . , iwentv-seven persons are being tried in Lemberg, the capital of Gahcis (Vienna), on a charge of procuring young girls to be sent to Constantinople At the meeting of London shareholder* of the Mercantile Bank of Australia General Babbage reiterated the charg< against Sir Graham Berry of knowing the condition of the bank when he sole his shares, and when he arrived in Melbourne of having helped Sir Mattheu Dayies to delude the local fthareholders He contended that Sir Graham Berrj was just as bad as the others. Fighting is reported from Crett (Athens) and four Christians have been murdered by the mob. Telephonic communication between New York and the Chicago World s Fair has been successfully established, the instrument used being Bel telephone. The distance is the longest on record for communication by telephone. The line will soon be extended to San Francisco. . William O'Brien denounces the Evicted Tenants' Commissioner as a bogus affair, and says it has been formed to embarrass Mr John Morley, Secretary for Ireland.