Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 95, 31 January 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

M. Brisson objects to close the Panama Canal enquiry until M. Delabaye I divtlges the names of the 104 members ! of the Chamber of Deputies whom he alleged had received bribes. Dr Hertz ' has been struok off the roll of the Legion of Honour. M. Franquerille has found, true bills against MM. Albert Grevy (brother of the • ex* President of theHepibho), Beroi, Bouvier, Proust, Eaa- ' connery, Bevis and Renault. ' President Harrison has ordened a* I 1 month's national mourning for Mr Blaite's death. The funeral takes place/ on Monday. A levolt against the rate of the Mahdit has broken out on the Island of Abba, im the^Thite Nilo. Paul Kruget has been re-elected Pres*. dent of the Transvaal by a majority of* 1000 votes. At a banquet given by the Queensland" Meat Export Company, in London, » hundred sat down. Genoral Willis hoped> that meat depots would be extended to» India and Hong Kong, as he was convinced that frozen meat would be betters and be obtained at a oheaper rate tham the existing rations. : . • The Queen ot Hawaii was proposing: to disfraachist* foreigners, and place the government in the hands of the natives. The Ministers, resigned on the 16tb, and Judge Doute was appointed temporary Premier. —Honolulu is in the hands of the foreigaers. The troops remained quiescent, and the Queen was deposed without loss of life. A oommission headed by Mr Thurston has proceeded to Washington with a petition praying for annexation to tbe United States. The Federal Bank of Australia has. suspended payment, pending a consult**tion of shareholders. The liabilities, are. about L2,000i000, of which half is d*a to. British depositors.. It is stated thai, theassets are sufficient to coyer, all liabilities. The capital of tbe< Bank if?L 2,000,000, of which LBoo>QoOhas been* subscribed, and L 400.000 paid up.