Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 112, 11 March 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Lord de Waldea, in evidence in the divorce suit, alleged that bis wife froquentlj visited Court Madires' apartments in London, lent him money, wrote to him, and stayed nt 'hotels on the Continent with him, whence an inference of adul* tery was sought to be drawn. Tite chief witness on his side wn,s a dismissed vnlet of Court Mndrcs'. The evidence nlso alleged adultery with another co-respon« dent, Captaip Winter, at Hjrl he. Hundreds are dying of famine in the province of Sheim in China. Husbands are selling wires and daughters to pro cure food. .. . ■ Nihilists have been detected in an attempt to poison the commander of the Czar's bodyguard. The Czar is reported as saying the French alliance is engraved on tbe hearts of his people, and it is impossible to efface or interfere with it. The Judge who is trying the Panama Canal directors, amid prolonged uproar, rebuked M. Charles do Lesseps for stating the Government was lirgelj responsible for tbe company paying enormous sums to bankers and news* papers. He specially instanced MM. de Frejcmet, Floquet and Clemenceau •s supporters of this policy. De Lesseps states that M. Floquet asked and obtained 300.000 francs (fc 12,000) for n-xrs-papers which were opposing Boulanger. j He reproached the Judge for trying to] shelter tbe Government. In the House of Commons the Secretary to the Admiralty stated that it was the intention of the Government to have two cruisers built which would be superior to any in t lie British Nary, at a co«t of L 700.000 each ; also three second'dass cruisers, two battleships, and two sloops. The sloops were to be fitted with single screws and Rails, and to be suitable for tbe Pacific or Australian stations. The estimated cost would be L 5.000,000 sterling. A contention of McCarthjites at Dublin adopted the Home Rule Bill with much enthusiasm. During the course of the speeches (ho chief fault found was with the fi mncial proposals. The Daily Chronicle says the Tories bare entered into a shameless conspiracy of obstruction. Rose, importer of colonial meat, states that his sales of New Zealand mutton haye increased twenty-two fold in the last three monthi. Mnkin and his wife were found guilty of child murder, in Bydney, the latter being recommended to mercy. Sentence was deferred pending settlement of points of law reserrcl during the trial