Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 54, 25 October 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A peculiar case haw been mrestißated in the London law courts. Evidence adduced Droved that the Marquis of Ailesbury had won LSOOO from a Scotch farmer at the game of baccarat, but the farmer declared he was drunk at the time, and not accountable for his actions when he gare the cheque. The Marquis of Ailesbury paid the cheque over to a trainer of racehorses, but it was dishonoured, and the latter now sues the drawer for the amount. Judgment was reserved, Egnn, one of those imprisoned in connection with the dynamite outrages in Ireland some years ago, will shortly be released. Archbishop Croke has failed in Ins endeavour to reconcile the Irish factions owing to the Parnellites insisting on Messrs J. Dillon, T. Healr. and! | William O'Brien retiring from the head of the The Bnssian Government explain that sealers off Copper Island were captured outside of the three-mile limit because they attemped to escape. The ill treatment of the crews is denied. Serious floods are reported from *Sar« dinia, and a town hall and 300 bouses have been dest-oyed. Over 100 persons have been drowned. The French troops in Dahomey are using melinile shells with awful effect. Six thousand men have been sent from the coast to reinforce the troops. In Paris some alarm is felt for the safety of the expedition. H.M.S. Eapid has arrived at Sydney from a visit to Solomon Islands, where a party was landed to punish the natives who took part in the murder of Dabille. One native was executed and a number of villages were destroyed . Two men belonging to the Army Service Corps at Portsmouth have been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and ignomimouß(y dismissed from the Army for destroying harness as a protest against extra drills. The Vossische Zeitung considers the Samoan Convention a great mistake, ami that the position there is untenable. It suggests the complete disarming of the natives, and the arrest of white residents who meddle m internal affairs, including Mr R. L. Stevenson, the novelist. Mr Musgrove, the well-known theatri* cal manager, of Australia, in the course of an interview stated that he offered Mr Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry the sum of £10.000 jointly for 16 weeks' engagement. Neill, the Lambeth poisoner, was tried for the murder of Matilda Clover only, though there were charges against him of having poisoned three others. The defence offered no evidence, and after His Honor bad summed up, the jury retired, but were only absent twelve minute 9, returning with a verdict of wilful murder. Justice Sir Henry Hawkins then pronounced sentence of death. His Honor characterised the murders as unexampled in atrocity. A hundred thousand people witnessed the dedication of the grounds and buildings connected with the World's Fair in Chicago last Friday. Almost every American and foreign notable in the United States being present. Fifteen thousand troops were on parade. Mr Cbauncey Depew delivered an address. Cholera is rapidly diminishing in Ham* burg, and no deaths were recorded yesterday. mmmm^ mmmm mmm _ m