Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 76, 15 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The man who wantonly shot at and assaulted Miss Wood, a niece of Mr Goschen, and Miss Belbrick, in August last in London, has been pronounced to be insane, and ordered to be confined in a lunatic asylum at the Queen s ple««ow. William Watson, poet, stopped the carriage in which the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were driving m Windsor Yards. He has since been placed in close confinement as a dangerous lunatic, and unfit to be at large. The post mortem examination ot the remain* of the late Baron Reinacb supports the theory that he did not die a natural death. . Bismarck, in the course of an interview with a Parisian journalist, declared that in the event of a Franco^German war, Russia would hurry her fleet to the Mediteranean. He urged France to content herself with a great African Empire. „, , fighting has occurred in bhent, BrMsela, thirty soldiers and five police being wounded. At a meeting of three thousand trade unionists at Broken Hill, Sydney, the sinkers decided to forward a petition to | Parliament signed by 25,000 men praying for the release of the strike leaders.