Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 86, 10 January 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

President Harrison has granted nn amnesty to all Mormons who have abstained from polygamy since 1890, but will prosecute the others. Milledge, late maiiager of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, who is being sent back to Melbourne from London, declares he can prove that the balance-sheet issued in February was correct. Kussia is spending an extra twelve million sterling this .year, chiefly on Siberian and other railways. The managing director rf the Liberator Permanent Building Society has fled from England, and Mr Jabez Spencer lialfour, who held the position of honorary director, is reported to be in hiding on the Continent. The Grand Jury oi Brooklyn iudict the Mayor and Council of New York for illegal and corrupt expenditure of public money at the Columbus festivals. Up to the present, 15 persons have been frozen to death in England, and 41 persons drowned owing to skating accidents. The trouble reported from BakersviHe. which caused great excitement throughout the States, proves to be a hoax. It is stated that the profits made br one London middleman, by substituting Canadian for English beef, amounted to L 200.000. Meetings of the unemployed have been held at Tower Hill and al Oldham, Lancashire. At the latter place the speeches were ot violent character, and the speakers declared Canon Holland, of St Paul's, had mocked the men by invi;ing them to place hope in Jesus, when he well knew it was useless. Samuels, Annrchist, advised the men to commit theft* at cook shops, or murder if necessary, saying that he preferred prison to starvation. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company pays a dividend of 10 per cent and carries forward a sum of L 5600. Nothing is placed to the reserve fund, the directors wishing to make larger provision for possible contingencies, owing to depression in Australia. Four .Nihilists have been discovered plotting in Pnris acainst the of the Czar of Russia, and have veen expelled across the frontier. Three cotton warehouses, along with 11,000 bales of cotton, have been des» troyed by fire in Liverpool, Two firemen lost their lives. The damage is estimated at L 200.000. Deplorable accounts have been received of the drought in the Western districts of Brisbane. Ou many stations half the stocks perished. The heat is terrible— registering 120 in the shade It will take the country three or four years to recover.