Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 110, 7 March 1893, Page 3

Gable Brevities

A severe earthquake was experienced ' at Sandgate, a small town on the const of Kent, about a mile and a half from Folkestone. The Raa mains were severed, roadways and seawall cracked, nnd upwards of 100 houses damaged by the force of the shock. The damage will probably amount to several million pounds. No fatalities are reported, but people walking along the streets were thrown down by the force of the shock. In her evidence in the divorce case, Lady De Walden denied she had squandered her husband's money, but admitted that abe kept late hours. Her husband had ordered the servants to exclude her from the precincts of the house, and had also insulted her relatives. Judge Gibson, of the Queen's Bench Division, Ireland, has severely commented on the difficulty of securing justice for County Limerick. An angry debate has taken place in the House of Lords respecting the state of affairs in Clare, which also formed the subject of a heated debate iv the Lower House on Thursday. London consignees complain that facilities in the colony for testing frozen meat before it is shipped are inefficient, owing indirectly to the conflicting interests of shipowners and shippers. Mr Gladstone has been burned in effigy at Belfast. The Orangemen of Belfast have pledged themselves to refuse payment of tuxes nnd resist laws passed by the Irish House of Commons. The Reichstag has voted L1'25,000 to suppress slavery In Africa. The Pope has received gifts amounting to a qnarter of a million sterling from pilgrims. The Bishop of Chester has introduced a Bill in the House of Lords for the adoption of the Gothenburg licensing system, including local veto, and giving power to purchase public houses. The London Times, referring to the last Australian shipment, says that surely the British farmer might contrive to preserve butter and save the local trade.