Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 65, 19 November 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The Premier andM. Freycinet opposed the prosecution of Count DeLesseps, bat gave their consent in consequence ot the threatened collapse of the Cabinet. It is reported that M. Eiffel received two and a quarter million francs for machinery that was never supplied. The Sultan has ordered the immediate construction of the forts on the Bos'* phoras recommended by General Brial* mond. : If the Panama Canal is not proceeded with, m the fear just coached, the work will be forfeited by the Columbian Go* rernment. The Prince of Monaco is suing (he Edaireur paper, published at Nice, for defamation in describing hid crown as a roulette table Mr Chauncey Depew says that the United States wants to make an experiment with her revenue, and is entitled to be allowed a trial, but he doubts whether there is any promise of prosperity in it A restaurant at Be jar, in Spain, collapsed during a wedding festival. Seyen persons were killed and 30 injured. The National Convention, now meeting at Dublin, states the crops are failing, and the tenants are unable to pay rent. Unless it is reduced a terrible crisis will be forced on. An amnesty is also demanded for political criminals. The Moscow Gazette *ay« the present is Russia's chance in Afghanistan. Mr Jenkins will shortly more in the Assembly that steps be taken to obtain a reciprocity treaty with America, A ustrain admitting kerosene free on condition that Australian wool be similarly Staples, the chairman, and Haroldson, late manager or the Anglo- Australian Bank, Melbourne, were arrested here on a charge of cbnspiracj and issuing a false balance-sheet ... T The .Daily News considers it remarkable that while New South Wales borrows locailj, other colonies tempt their fate in new loans on the Lonnon market. It states that the city of Melbourne loan was only a partial success, as the guaranteeing syndicate was : compelled to take 5Q per cent or the amount. It asserts that shrtuW West Australia meet with a rebuff, all colonial stocks will be pre* iadicefrft. .