Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 59, 5 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

— ♦ Owinu to the McKinley Tariff, the owners of the cotton mills at Fall River, _ town in Massachusetts, are voluntarily increasing the wages of the operatives 7 per cent. Mr Grorer Cleveland claims to hare 231 rotes, including the solid South rote. General Harrison has 242 without New York, and it is believed that he is winning. The French regulations being imperative that carcases imported whole and containing the lungs should be "ft**™* for traces of pleuro-pneumonia, Mr Weddell has suggested to the authorities that a French official should inspect the carrases in Australia m order to avoid the difficulty . j • v • Information has been received in Pans that the Dabomeyun prisoners assert that 300 Europenni are directing the operations against the French. Fifty junks have been burnt at Ichang ' (Hook K on* ) and 200 lives lost. A man named Makin and his wife have been arrested on suspicion in Melbourne of having caused the death of seven infants, whose bodies were found buried in the back yard of their premises at Macdonald Town, a suburban municipal district, situated between Sewtoa and Alexandria. fMakins' daughters have been arrested for complicity in tbe murders. The bodies have apparently been buried two months.] The London Po3tmaster-General in a letter to the Agent -General of New Zea« land, regrets tbe decision of the Treasury regarding the subsidy to the San Francisco mail service is not an absolute necessity from an Imperial stand point, but is one winch the Colony should reasonable provide if satisfied that it is required. One hundred and fifty*five of the Municipal elections have been decided* The Liberals have gained 64 seats, the Tones 59, While the iiabor representatives ucve carried Derby and Bradford. The troopship Crocodile, with 1150 passengers on board, narrowlj escaped being wrecked on the Isle of Wight dur» ing a fog. • The warship Howe struck on a reef at FerroL.in Spain, and is in a dangerous position,