Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 24 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

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The Marquis of Ailesbnry is paying 7s 6dm the pound. The London Globe states tbat Sir Vernon Haroonrt, Chancellor of the Exchequer. i» pressing the Admiralty to adopt « retrenchment policy and to largely reduce the number of men. The late Lord Tennyson bequeathed his manuscripts to hes son HaiJam and a life income to bis widow. The Pans correspondent of the Times foresees a revolution as the outcome ot the Panama Canal scandals. The duel between MM. Clemenceau and Doroulede. arising out of Canal scandals, bas been suspended, the seconds being unable to decide the cause ol the quarrel. . The prohibition against the importa* twn of sheep from New Zealand lo Sydney will be removed aa soon as the new regulations are issued. Baron Hirarh's annual report on his colonising scheme shows that a total of 330,000 acres were purchased in the Argentine Republic, of wbich 180,000 acres are now under cultivation and settled by upwards of 1000 families. The report makes no reference lo the ' projpet which was on foot to found a colony in Australia. I Mr Foster, Secretary to ihe Treasury, itates that the balance of trade is in favour of the nation, and the rerenue is four millions per month. Stocks are firm. One ofthe officials of Carnegie s works at the Homestead declares that of tbe 4000 free labonrers employed there 2000 are prostrated from effects of the poison placed in their food by the cook, and 32 are dead. Boss and seven others, wbo were concerned m the boxing match in which Steward, the pugilist, was killed, have been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. A fresh outbreak of rholera has occurred in Hamburg and the epidemic is again spreading throughout the city at an alarming rate.