Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 109, 4 March 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The Berlin press calls on the German Government to resist the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Bussia intends to increase her garrison, on the Afghan frontier. The Bishop ot Tirnova. in Bulgaria, bas been arrested for preaching resistance , to the Government, and confined in a I monastery in the Balkans, At the Miners' Federation Conference, London, thn advice of the executive for a month's general stoppage to assist miners on strike was rejected. Le Figaro publishes tbe evidence given by l hnrlca do Lesseps at the enquiry at Paris, presided over by Judge Franqueville, showing that MM. Clemenceau, De Freycinet. and Floquet exerted pressure to induce the Panama Canal Company to give the late Baron Reinach nn additional sum of cißht million francs to ayoid a public trial. The company partly yielded to the pressure and gave five million francs. At a meeting of the Australian Agricultural and Coal Company in London the Chairman stated that the financial •position in New South Wales killed enterprise. The local banks and financial societies held forty three millions of deposits. Bank of Australasia shares have fallen L2in a tew days. The Financial Times asks why the dividend is delayed. The Canadian Orangemen are prepar mg arms for shipment to Ulster. At a banquet in connection with the Colonial Institute, in London, Lord Rosebery said that the real solution cf the Imperial Federation question would Le found in Colonial Conferences'hougk the present time was inopportune to summon such gatherings, owing to the depres ion in tbe colonies nnd political crises in Great Britain. He expressed the opinion that the penny postage contained the truest germ of Imperial unity