Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 57, 1 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The French troops operating against the Dahomeyans are using Lebel rifles, After the firs tfew rounds were fired the fusilade simply became an indiscriminate slaughter, the effect being similar to that of explosive bullets. Even trees did not shield the men. The dead were burned in a pyre. The women belonging to the Sinndist sect are being outrageously treated at Skivira, in Russia. The edict of repression is being severely carried out, and sentries are placed to watch the men at every hour of the day. Mr Ferceval, in an interview with the Marquis of Ripon and Mr S. Buxton, both of the Colonial Office, strongly condemned the attitude ofthe PostmasterGeneral in refusing to renew the subsidy to the San Francisco mail seryice. Ihe four storied premises, occupied by Messrs Brovman, wholesale drapers, Sydney, bave been destroyed by fire. The damage is set down at £7000. The New Zealand Insurance Company has a line of LI 450 on the stock. Lord Onslow, speaking at Guilford, referred to the Premier of New Zealand as once being an itinerant vendor, the Minister of Defence as a working miner, and the Minister of Lands as a shepherd, and yet they were fully impressed with the responsibilities of their positions and anxious to do their duty in administering the affairs of the Empire. The London Investors' Beview admits that the reply of the Agent General ot New Zealand to the attacks made on the Colony is both clever and ingenious. The balance-sheet of the Tyser line of steamers shows that the working of the company in 1891 has resulted in a loss of £27,000. . T , Yecdors oi butter in London think that New Zealand farmers ought to arrange to have shipments in London in time for the October sales next year. Terrific gales have been experienced in the Atlantic, with seas said to be the heaviest known. The revenue derived from the gaming establishments at Monte Carlo is £920, « OOu, being an excess of L 47.000 oyer the previous year. The Prince of Monaco condemns the business, and has intimated his intention not to renew the agreement fox gaming houses after 1913, A fire occurred in a prison at Collerody, during which many of the inmates effected their escape. Ten lost their lives is attempting to escape The Weidomosti, a newspaper published in Moscow, insists that Russia must present the fortifying of the Bosphorus. For continuation Of Reading Matter see fourth page.)