Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 67, 24 November 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Friday last was observed as a day of thanks in Hamburg, owing to the cesßation of the plague. The second reading of the Bui providing: for legitimatising children born before the marriage of their parent* was carried in the New South Wales Assembly by 50 to 19. The accountant of Port Melbourne branch of the National Bank of Australasia ia missing. His cash is short i ... A Brisbane telegram informs us mat the miners who are flocking to Batevia river rush are experiencing much privation. No less than forty were lost in the bush, and. only rescued after being two days without food, and ten others are still missing. _ w The Land and' Loan Company of New Zealand carry forward lto »•«* Jeare account the sum of L3OOO. but do not declare a dividend owing to some of the bilfc stat to the colony for collection - bemft dishonoured Tbe announcement that Government has decided to retain Uganda is con* firmed. The Governor of Turkestan has refused the request by the Khan of Khandstruth for aid against the British. * telling him Russia and England were too powerful to quarrel. Baron Reniarch, one of the defendants in the Panama Canal prosecutions, became excited, and died- suddenly of apoplexy. The directors, including the Court de Lesseps, have been summoned to appear before the Court on ThursAbomey has wen evacuated by the natives and the French troops entered the capital" without opposition. It is reported.that the King is a prisoner and has agreed to the French demands.