Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 81, 29 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Pope considers that the moral am religious condition of Europeans mdi eatei the gathering of a storm, and hope; the Powers will agree to a conferenci with the view to a disarmament. News has been received at Paris tha the Kanaka crew of the French vesse Constant ine, recruiting in New Hebride 1 group, murdered the captain and mau and looted tbe vessel. The murderers cooked and ate the body of the captain. Dr Graham has been summoned on a charge of giving false certificates of death in connection with tbe victims of JSeill, alias Cream, the Lambeth poisoner. The trial of McKae for the Althorpe murder has been concluded, the prisoner being found guilty, and sentenced to death. , The General of the society or company mown as Jesuits has arrived in Dublin. The last visit to Ireland was in 1848. A portion of the Dublin detective o&ce has been injured by the explosion of a dynamite bomb. Constable Sinnott was killed, the body being horribly mntilated. Tbe front of the building was wrecked. The whole of Dublin is alarmed over the outrage. Four persons in the ricinity of the detective buildings at the time of the explosion were found in an unconscious condition and removed to the hospital, where they recovered. The Times, referring to the outrage, says it is a striking comment on Mr Morley'a latest act of homage to his masters. The Standard considers the outrage should convince Mr Morlcy of the futility to attempt to conciliate the In reply to enquiries as to what action the Government propose taking in connection with the seissure of Canadian sealers off Copper Island, Mr Gladstone states he is awaiting an explanation from the Eussian Government on the matter. The women of Madrid asked the Go* rernment to prohibit the erection or a Protestant Churoh, bnt Senor Sagasta, the new Premier, declined to interfere. An outrigger* and skiff came into collision in the upper Yarra (Melbourne) last Monday, the occupants being thrown into the water. Three young men named Tipper, Palmer and Neck were drowned. Further engagements' have taken place between the Kachins and British troops, in India, in which the latter were successful. Thirty stockades were captured by the British, who are now engaged in fortifying the trade ronres. Tbe Kachm s loss was 30 killed and the British 8. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the well known actress, is a candidate for election as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and is soliciting the support of the Women's League.