Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 68, 26 November 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

It is reported that the English Cabinet has alloted £77,000 for the reinstatement of evicted tenants in Ireland. - The Italian Parliament was opened on Wednesday by the King in person. The tone of his speech was of a paeifio nature. It is reported in London that Lords Carrington and Houghton will be created Earls in the new year. The Brussels press consider that the situation in Katanga is hopeless, the Arabs haying massacred almost the whole of the members of eeyeral expeditions despatched thither recently. ; . Mr Levi,, president of the Monetary Conference, sitting in Brussels, said it was desired to create a more general employment of silver, in order to secure monetary stability. Despite the increased output of gold in Australia, the market was in a serious condition. MrGroyer Cleveland, the Presidentelect, has left New York in. order to avoid the crush of office-seekers. vHe -threatens to close his town residence. Serious floods have been experienced m Washington State, and many lives have been lost. Seattle Valley, on the eastern shore of Puget Sound, has been converted into a seething lake, Owing to the restrictions placed upon them, half the Chinese merchants carrying on business in San Francisco have decided to retire. : - Mr Cleveland states' that £36,-000,000 will be required next year for pensions alone. He enjoins the necessity of economical administration upon his followers. . ... ■ " - ; ; Quite a sensation was caused in New York at Messrs 3uion and Co., the Liverpool shipowners, notifying that they will withdraw their fleet of vessels from the New York trade, owing to the harassing rules recently introduced by President. Harrison respecting the immigrant and general passenger traffic. . ' ..' Von Caprivi introduced the Army Bill in the Berlin Reichstag in. a speech which lasted two hours. He disclaimed any idea ofa warlike policy, and warmly repelled the idea. Caprivi said he was convinced the next Russian war would be conducted on the western frontier. Though there was no immediate danger, yet if the re ap. proachment between France and Russia were converted into an alliance there would be grave risk. He contended that as a matter of fact the troops of the Triple Alliance were not equal to the combined French and Russian armies. Germany was not sp supreme as in 1870. He dwelt forcibly on the extraordinary strength of the. French frontier fortifications, and Paris, which was now the strongest fortress in the world. The Reichstag received the Chancellor's speech coldly and with evident scepticism.