Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 58, 3 November 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The Cabinet is at present discussing the Home Rule scheme. It is reported that Lords Koseberry and Ximberiey and Sir W. V. Harcourt claim that the Queen should have the power of vetoing laws passed bj the Irish Parliament on the advice of the Imperial Government. The survivors of the Eoumania make serious charges of negligence against the officers of the vessel. Lady Mabel Sutton informs a society paper that she jilted Lieut. Crosbie because he required the bulk of her fortune to be settled on himself Sbe has issued a writ for £75 lent to Croslfie after the Ascot meeting. Two Atlantic liners are a week overdue, and some uneasiness is felt as to their safety owing to the recent severe Kales. . The Babrinadnmma police barracks were attacked and two policemen and a woman and child murdered. There ha§ been no fresh cholera at Hamburg for a week, but ten deaths have occurred at Buds Festh, and the plague is seriously increasing at Lublin in Poland. At a meeting in Sydney last night, nearly 10,000 people were present. Resolutions were carried condemning the sentences passed on the strikers, and it was decided to prepare petitions for mitigation of the sentences. Little disturbances occurred amongst small sections of the crowd. Edmund Livermarsh, a journalist of San Francisco, being tried for murder at Santa Rosa, was hypnotised in court and re-enacted the crime in detail, to the astonishment af the court. The defence is that he committed the crime while in the hypnotic condition. Snider, a Sydney socialist, addressed meetings of the unemployed at Tower Hill, London. He earnestly en joined them to show a bold front to the capi« tahsts. The same misery and want he had Been all over the world, and now was the time to take decisive action to secure definite relief. The French troops again routed the Dahomeyan army, capturing their defences on the river Kato and encamping close to Kano. The Emp«B*r and Empress of Germany and the Duke of York took part in the ceremony of reconsecrating the restored Schloss Eirche at Wittenberg containing the tombs of Luther and Melancthon. There was a gorgeous historical pageant in honor of the occasion. Serious floods have been experienced in Mexico, and fifty persons drowned. During a political riot in Raleigh, North Carolina, five persons were killed. - ___ -