Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 63, 15 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Th? Berlin police have seized the first issue of 40U0 copies of au Anarchist newspaper published here. Consequent ou the unsettled state Of affairs in Samoa the United States cruiser Alliance has heea ordered there. The New. York Herald says the result of the American election means that the States prefer a democracy to an oligarchy. The World -says the robbery of the masses by a powerful few will now be ■topped. The Times describes it as really a reyolution. The Tribune considers it tbe greatest surprise, in tbe political history of America. Mr Foster, Secretary to tne Treasury, says the verdict has been returned against the McKinley tariff. . Information has been receiyed that the French troops haye captured and sbot three Germans and one Belgian for assisting the Dahomeyans. The French in Dahomey have seized a British steamer carrying arras to the natives, and confiscated the cargo., The Novosti says Russia does not want Constantinople, but must have the Dardanelles. A Russian camp of 150 strong in the Pamirs is being reinforced, owing to the advance of 1000 Chinese troops. Dr Baindl. solicitor to tlie Emperor of Austria, has been arrested on a charge of stealing L 50.000, Tbe thefts extended oyer years and the money went in speculations. The culprit has confessed. Father Fay has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of intimidating a witness at the hearing of a petition against the return of Mr Patrick Fullam (Nationalist) for South The Standard asserts that the Cabinet decided to assist in retaining Uganda, at a cost of between L 30.000 and L<W,OOO per year. , The press critics agree tbat Mr Irving s iing Lear is a magnificent pourfcrayal and the greatest of all his creations. Archbishop Vaugham, of Westminster, has delegated the best of the priests in his see to controvert popular errors and meet opponents in public hails.