Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 106, 25 February 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Cholera is ragiug in the Russian provinces, near the Austrian frontier, and 1000 cases are under treatment. Four hundred deaths were recorded for the month endiug February 7tb. An explosion has taken place in a mine in Skahtz (Austria), owing to there being no air shaft. Fifteen miners were killed. The Government have taken steps to close the mine. The Right Hon Robert William Duff, M.P. for Banffshire, has been appointed to succeed Lord Jersey as Governor of New South Wales. The blizzard experienced in tho Eastern and Middle States (America), exceeds in seventy that of 1888. Many persons haye been frozen to death. Owing to tho poll tax imposed by tbo Russian Government fifty thousand pooplo haye abandoned their homos, aud will leave the country. A quarter of a million people are starving in Finland. Residents of Hawaii report that the English and Germans have been planning for a year to possess tbe islands, and that the Consulates have armed the natives and incited them to oppose the Americans. Sir John Lubbock. Chairman of tho Committee of Colonial Bondholders, has informed the New Plymouth Harbour bondholders that he is still pressing Mr Ballance for tho money duo. It is proposed that a deputation, com prising 5000 Ulster men, should wait on Mr Gladstone, protesting against Home Rule for Ireland. In the House of Commons the Railway Servauts Eight Hour Bill was read a second time. It is rumoured that tho Irish Unionist organisations are purchasing arms. A letter in the Morning Post states that Gladstone modelled his Home Rule Bill on the Constitution of Victoria.