Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 17 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The French Gable Company has to lay a cable between Queensland and New Caledonia, whether the Chamber of Deputies vote* a subsidy ot LBOOO or not. Suprise is expressed at Queensland and New South Wales agreeing to vote L4OUO, since it is a purely French enterprise, and will, it is argued, prevent any future Pacific cable being constructed out of French hands. A new comet is expected to approach within a million mites of the earth bf noon on the 27th instant. The Daily News states that the Government intends to despatch Commissioners ib report on Uganda before coming to a definite decision as to retaining the country. Several Republican Senators are m# dined tb'suppbrt the free Wool Bill how before the Finance Committee, and as the' President is believed to 1 have ap« proved : som'e of the Bills before the Senate for admission of raw materials free, it is thought the Wool Bill may become law this winter, Cleveland has advised delay m summoning Congress until nexj: autumn, in order to avoid a hasty tariff revision. Manufacturers are curtailing their output and stopping pro* jected extensions of works. A quantity of clothing in which in* fants were wrapped has been indentified by the mothers who gave the children to the Makins to nurse in Sydney. Two lovers were shot dead on Dart* moor (London) while returning from church, it is believed through jealousy, A young man named Williams was ar< rested on suspicion, whereupon he attempted to commit suicide, A man living in.Koniggratz f Austria) get fire to his house and pushed bis wife into the flames, in order to marry her sister. The woman, however, escaped, though badly maimed, and the man was tried for the crime and sentenced to 15 yean' imprisonment. A portion of butter, ex Austral, sold in London at 124s per cwfc The hearing of the petition aeainst the return of the Hon. A. J. Balfour for East division of Manchester, on the grounds of illegal practices, has begun Neill, the Lambeth poisoner, was executed yesterday. The execution took place in private, and on the black flag being hoisted a large crowd assembled outside the walls of the gaol and cheered. The Busßian press is pleased at the reception accorded to the Czarewitch on his arrival in the Austrian capital. Mouteil, a French explorer, has crossed the Sahara Desert from Lake Tchad to Tripoli, . The Melbourne Rifle Association annual competition has opened. McCarthy, of Auckland, with a score of 43, takes a prize in the first round of any rifle match. Fenianism is rampant in Cork, without any attempt at concealment.