Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 56, 29 October 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

Neill in London has confessed to the murder of tour women, but one of the leading witnesses at the trial stated that Neill told him he: had killed lots of women of the unfortunate class. A cargo of wheat per the barque Snowdrop from Timaru was sold at 27s 9d. It is reported that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York will visit the Chicago Exhibition during the summer. The Daily News implies that it is quite possible the Government will administer affairs in Uganda, though declining .to assist the British East African Company. Mr Chamberlain said it would be both cowardly and silly to .surrender Uganda. Lord Salisbury, in an artictle in the National Be view on the constitutional revision question, ridicules the idea of force being applied to the House of Lords, which, he says, always bow's to the real declaration of the nation. A syndicate of London brokers is arranging to lend New South Wales a million of money instead of the colony issuing Treasury bills, on condition that the interest and principal are made payable in London. The brokers fear the loss ot commission if the loan is floated in the colony and filtered through London. The Banks disapprove of the objects of the syndicate. The London' County Council has for some time had before it a scheme for cutting a great street from. Holborn to the Strand, to be known as the Council Broadway. The cost is estimated at two and a quarter millions. . The Times' Simla correspondent states that Lieutenant-General Sir Evelyn Wood succeeds Lord Roberts as Com-mander-in-Chiefin India. '. ■ The deficit for the year in the Russian Budget is officially announced as 28,000,000.