Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 66, 22 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The London Times is refusing: to publish any Queensland cable messages, owing to the refasalof that colony to join in the cable guarantee. The jurymen empanelled in the case of Mcfiae, charged with tlw Ahhorp murder, in London left the Court, at the lunoheon hour, the Judges postponed the trial uqtil next Assizes, and fined the jurymen L6O each. Mr J. G. Blame, ex- Secretary of State. IU 8. A.). »s in a critical state oi health The trial of those who are suspected ot murdering some of Pinkerton s detectives during Carnegie's strike has begun. A tornado in Illinois and Missonn re» raited in great damage and many people Sir Julias Yogel is appointed London agent of the New York Life Insurance Company. , , Lord Herschell has appointed a working man magistrate at Dudley. This is the second appointment of a like nature Witbiri the week. . Sir Henrj Parkes book, which Lonsjrian's are publishing, will coter his wholeumreer and is too local to interest English readers. The English Government have sent Captain McDonald to make further enquiries re the railway in Uganda. The Bey Dr Cluttorbuck, who was sentenced to four years* imprisonment on a charge of embezzlement, has died in gaol. The trial is proceeding at Palermo (Italy) of two prisoners accused of having a poisoned a priest by putting poison in the chalice used at mass. A steamer collided with and overthrew a small lighthouse in Belfast Lough, the inmates being drowned^ Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Thirsk railway accident, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter being returned against the signalman. Ihe jurymen considered the directors of ihe company were responsible for insisting on long shifts The Melbourne police are in possession of a bold scheme to rob the customers of City banks. The detectives watched various banks yesterday. The recruiting vessels find there is a great demand amongst the Islanders who are anxious to return to Queensland. A vessel arrived on Saturday with 90. including 42 who had preyiously worked j in the colony. One mission station in the New Hebrides is practically deserted. A severe fight took place over the eviction of a farmer at Kanturk. Boiling water, red hot irons and hve coals were showered on Ihe bailiff and his assistant. The Pope grants a dispensation for the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Roumama with Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, on the condition that all children are brought up in the Catholic faith. Russia is threatened with another faminePrince Louis of Bavaria has married a dancer in the Court Theatre in Munich.