Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 851, 7 January 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

Small-pox is spreading at aa alarming rate in Lancashire. " < '. One of the Paris papers declares that the late Baron Reinnch sold the secret of the composition of smokeless powder to Germany and Great Britaia. M. Blondin, chief clerk of Le Credit Lyonnais, the great Frenoh banltine cor* poration, has been arrested in connection with the Panama Canal frauds, and fresh revelations are' foreshadowed. Petitions are being signed in the United States in support of Chapman's Bill to prohibit the employment of Canadians, of whom 300,000 cross the border daily, returning to their homes in the evening, while others remain for a longer period. Several Russian provinces are threa* tened with famine, and the Government are arranging to distribute immense quantities of rye. Thousands of destitute peasants who attempted to cross the frontier into German territory were compelled to return. Mr Labouchere. an the ground princi* pally of expediency, protests against the retention of the Irish members in the British Parliament, as he cobsiders it would lead the douse of Commons and the country of reject Mr Gladstone's Home Rule proposals. It is reported that Mr Gladstone will explain the provisions of the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons on February 6th. General Tohernaif says the most popular war of all Russian wars will be * the coming war with Germany.' Twelve TTmanists have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the poisoning at Carnegie's works.

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