Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The British squadron on the American station has mobolised at Coquimba, in Chili, and is awaiting orders in connection with the Hawaiian trouble. Meeting* have been heid in Texas, at which resolutions were passed denouncing the Executive for failing to capture ljnchers. Mr Perceval, Agent* General for New Zealand, has ascertained that unsound dairy made butter is being sold in the English markets for the facto ry made article. The Anchor liner Tnnoeria has been lost on the coast of Corunna, in Spain, At exactly the same spot as the warship Serpent was wrecked some time ago. Thirty-seven of the crew were drowned. Twelve more deaths have occurred at Marseilles, bat the doctors are not able to pronounce as to the character of the the epidemic whicn at first was sup-' posed to be cholera. The medical men attribute the outbreak to the fact that new sewers are being laid in the city. A Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr C. Dhraeh, member for Cheshire, provides that all frozen meat landed in England must be marked at the port of arrival. Mr Wragge, of the New South Wales Meteorological Deportment, predicts a great tnonsoonal disturbance, which will produce a great quantity of ram. It is now in theneiahbouihood of the Biverina. The second battalion of the South Staffordshire regiment have been ordered to proceed from Aldershot to Egypt next week. Seven thousand applications have been received for a hundred and ten seats in the Strangers' Gallery in the House of Commons by persons desirous of bearing Mr Gladstone's speech in the House on Home Rule. For continuation 9f Reading Matter se* fourth pace.)