Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 90, 19 January 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The German whitebook shows thatihe Govern meat considers that Baron Cederkrultz, late Chief .1 ustice of Samoa, and Baron Pelsach, President of the Munici* pal Council at Apia, were subordinating the interests of the whites at Samoa to tlie natives, and interfered too much with the Consuls. The trial of Dempsey (Labour leader), Beatby and Davidson, in connection with the poisoning of free labourers at Car* negie's Homestead works, is proceeding. The informer, Gallagher, a free labourer, deposed that Beathy engaged Daridson and himself- to doae that Dempsey applied for a powder to use in a similar manner to tha£ m connection -with the street ear* -ittikii'dt Chicago. He (Gallagher) mixed the poison in the cups oi.WfcWt^flA^fefct.UA, men, three other cooks, assisting. Seel, first mate of the barquo Annie Stabord, at Newcastle hf d a& altercation with a negwß s#&% &H I»W WO W* nlolt, and running up the rigging collared the man. It Js alleged' that the man drew a knife to def«*nd himstflf, and &el seeing this struck him a terrible k\bW with a staysail block; hurling him to the deok. The negro died shortly af terwardr. g Seel, who has been arrested; is beherea £ to be the man who was .recently Acquittal at Wetlingtpn, New jZfealand/, on^.tho , r charge of inciting FiiiWy id connection with the Waterldo Quay afff ray, iii 'which a sailor named .Greenrose met his death. • The coroner's jury retorted % Yerdiot df manslaughter against Beeh . , . ) ;, . • . .. , , Owing to the continued attacks bjrtjbe ■ Arabs upon the Egyptian frontier Karl '' Rose be ry regards the : situation fifij that country as being serious* ■ ; „, - , . A trinn in Bussia caught fire, and fifty young soldiers were burned, to death* •