Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 72, 6 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Tho medical officer of the Fort of London "expresses himself confident that the choleraic epidemic will return in the «prragV • /There are evidences of the truth of the statement that the Princess May of Teck has beeu betrothed to the Duke of York. ' ; ' Wells, of Monte Carlo notoriety, has been arrested in Hay re on a charge of obtaining the snm of L 50,000 from per* sons in London by means of fraudulent ;; . The committee oyer which Lord Ons . low presides have examined General Booth with, regard to the Salvation Army's position, and are now engaged in drafting their report. The steamer Greystoke, of 1367 tons. hailing from West Hartlepool, has been wrecked in ftie Sooth Elbe. Twenty* two persons were drowned . Jay Gould died from pulmonary con* sumption after nine days' illness. He leaves a fortune of 134,000,000 sterling. It is expected that he has bequeathed from three to five million dollars to charities. George Gould inherits 40 per cent of the estate. The entire American press refer to Gould's death with con* temptuous pity, and are glad his sinister influence has ended. The Sydney Attorney- General has found a bill of murder against Makin and his wife in connection with the death of a baby, for which the Coroner's Court found a verdict of manslaughter only. At the Panama Canal euquiry a mem« ber of the' Committee on the Panama Lottery Loan' Bills deposed that an emissary of M. Charles de Lesseps vainly ' offered him 100,000 francs to vote for the Bill, and on his refusal the offer was increased to half a million francs. A witness named Barker deposed that M. Barbe, late Minister of Agriculture, received half a million francs for promo* ' ting the Lottery Bill, and he alleged the late Baron Beinach assisted m keeping up Panama stocks. A city banker indicated the names of persons whom Charles de Lesseps had bribed. For continuation Of Beading Matter see ■-■', ■■■■. ..;:■ "'. • fourth page.) I