Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 78, 20 December 1892, Page 2

Gable Brevities

♦ ■ The New Zealand and river Plate Land and Mortgage Agency Company has declared a deridend of 6 per cent. The profits for the year were L1'3,000. The reserve fund is reduced LSOOO, and L 25.000 has been earned forward. The Economist considers the deficit of New South Wales, as shown in the Budget, confirms the experience of Victoria that Protection will not prevent or ameliorate depression in trade and fin* ances. The trial of Hobbs, contractor, and Wright, solicitor, in London on charges of having fraudulently received the moneys of the Liberator Permanent Building Society, is creating a sensation. Advances made to Hobbs by the society exceed two million pounds. A number of important books are missing. Wright was the moving spirit in the various businesses of the society. Information has been received that the volcano of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands, is in violent eruption. Archbishop Vaughan will be created a Cardinal in January The Admiralty has decided to court* martial Admiral Fairfax, who had charge of H.M.S. Howe when she stranded, Stewart, the pugilist, died almost immediately after a prize fight in which he had been taking part in Sydney. His opponent (Eoss) has been arrested. MM. CharlesdeLessepsand Pontaino. directors of the Panama Canal Company, have been arrested on a charge of corrupting public functionaries. M. Ferdinand de Lesseps was spared owing to his age. M. Coltu has fled to Vienna. M. Sans Le Roy, member of the Chamber of Deputies who is charged with having been bribed to vote in favour of the Lottery Loan Bill, is also imprisoned The committee haye resolved to continue the enquiry. The arrests have caused a profound sensation. Domiciliary visits to the prisoners' residences resulted in the seizure of important documents. The Pall Hall Gazette declares that the Home Rule Bill is based on the lines of the Act grunting representative constitution to New Zealand in 1852. During the hearing of the Worth Meath election petition, it was elicited that a priest struck two old women who wore adverse to Davitt's candidature. This evidence created a sensation in Court. Extraordinary measures are being taken to ensure secrecy with regard to the Home Rule proposals of the Government. One printer has been entrusted with setting the whole Bill, and he is locked up in a room where no others are working.