Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A fearful outrage has been committed *by Tonquin pirates. They captured eighty women. and children, and imprisoned them in a cave, announcing tliat they would be set at' liberty on payment of ransom by their friends. Police were sent in pursuit, and on the pirates learning thu, they suffocated the whole of the captives by burning charcoal in the cave, the entrance to which bad beed securely closed. ; Tke Sydney wheat htrat i« expected to reach 7.176,000 bushels, with an •wage ot 19| bushels to the *«»»,f h j highest on record. It is estimated that 7,260,000 bushel, will be required for coemption, and 620,000 for seed Ptt Ke' e ßpree, which wa« bound hoax Bremen to New York, broke her pro seller 700 mile" off the coast, and drifted Sout in a helpless »tate for two days. The ''pifli««age»f among whom was Mr MoodyVthe evangelist, were rescued by passing Teasels. \ There is a strong demand from manu» fteiorers in the United States, that Mr Cleveland, the President elect, should mil. aii extra session of Congress, so that the Free Wool BUI may be passed without delay. . It is stated that the report of Lord Onslow's committee will be favourable to General Booth. The members find there has been no wrongful use of money entrusted to the Salvation Army. The signalman by - whose neglect, induced by want of sheep, the fatal raiU "" way accident at Think was eauied, was convicted of manslaughter. The Judge merely sentenced ''him to come up for sentence when called upon. TheLondoa Time* n«« published a article on Australasian produce in English markets, giving the history and the ' present dimensions of the butter, fruit and jnutton trade, which, it says, is dolour more to bind the colonies to Blititn than; any Imperial Federation scheme yet projected.