Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 74, 10 December 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

♦.. — — •■, The news of the massacre of the BaKatanga expedition, commanded by Captain Jacques, is confirmed at Zanzibar. Sir G. Portal, Commissioner in Uganda, will be escorted to Lake Nyanza by 500 of the Sultan of Zanzibar's soldiers. A Norwegian barque has been wrecked on the Mersey bar, 18 of those on board being drowned. ' . .-. -. Jay Gould specially becjueaths a million pounds to his son George in recognition of his remarkable business ability, and the remainder of his rast- wealth is divided equally among all his children. Nothing is left to charities or public institutions. American imports from Australasia during 1892 show an increase of two and a quarter million dollars. Some uneasiness is felt in London about Uganda in consequence of Captain Williams returning to the coast ill, and leaving the country in charge of a junior. China claims the whole of Ahchur Pamir, and the Chinese Minister at St Petersburg states his Government will consider any encroachment by Russia very seriously. Three thousand persons were present at an Agricultural Conference in London. A resolution was passed that imports which compete with English agriculture ists ought to be taxed up to the same amount as Home products' Mr Jasper Moore, M.P., said that a duty of 10s on American corn would produce five millions for the relief of the agricultural interest. Other speakers contended that foreign and colonel imports were ruining the dairy industry, and urged that ira* ported meat should be subjected to a merchandise marks law, and retailing butchers licensed, so that the public were not misled into buying colonial for English meat, The Sydney Royal Society has received a donation of LIOO from the Hon Ralph Abercromby, to bring about an exhaustive study of Australian weather. At a meeting of Sir M. Davies' creditors in Melbourne a statement was sub' mitted showing liabilities, L 121.321, and assets 128,769. The principal secured creditors are— The Bank of New South Wales, L 25.000; Bank oj Australasia, L 165 0; Commercial Bank, L6OOO.