Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 75, 13 December 1892, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The petition against the election of Alderman H. Danes, Unionist M.P. tor Rochester, has been upheld on the ground of corrupt practices, and the election has been declared void. The massacre of Captain Jacquis* expedition in Central Africa is doubted, and strong re enforcements are proceed* injj from the coast to Katanga. Mr J. Morley, Secretary for Ireland, addressing a meeting in Newcastle, de dared that crime was decreasing in Ireland, and that the number of cases during the past twehe months showed a redaction of 50u. At a meeting of the holders of the Oamaru municipal and waterworks stock in London, Mr Michael Smith submitted an offer making the interest seven per cent instead of fire. The chairman itated that unless justice was done to the holders of the stock the Stock Ex» change would decline to quote New Zealand loans., ■ General Dragovsky, Chief Judge of Tasbkend, has been murdered. He had recently sentenced several Nihilists to severe sentences, and the crime is attributed to revenge. . Herf Ahlwardt, a member of the Reichstag, has been sentenced to five months' imprisonment for slandering the Jewish makers of the Lowe rifles. His defence was that he was acting against the. race, which it was desired to eject from the country. President Cleveland denies that he infends to cbnverie on extra session of Congress, but will form a committee of the Senate and the House to prepare a Tariff Hill, . . Typhoid fever is spreading widely in Mexico and 25 deaths are recorded daily. Influenza has re appeared iq Berlin, and is spreading to an alarming extent Messrs Carow and Bartels, brokers, of Hamburg, have failed, with liabilities amounting to L 75.000, Bartels has been arrested, but Carow has absconded. The prospectus of the African. Transcontinental Telegraph Company to connect Mashonaland, Uganda and Wady halfa on the Upper Nile by electric telegraph, has been issued with a capital of L 400,000. Corporal Gordon has beed awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantly rescuing his commander from drowning in the Gambia Biver in March last. The Den?er silver mines, Colorado, are closed down, and hundreds of miners have been discharged.