Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 117, 23 March 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

. ♦ The coal mines Regulation Bill hns passed tbe Sydney Legislative Council, It provides that a day's work for coal mines shall be eight hours, witb the exception of Saturdays, which shall be six hours. It has been arranged in San Francisco that Gaudnur will row Stansbury for the Championship of the World in the autumn Explosives were found in the holds of threo vessels which have arrived m New York harbour during the last few days, and their presence has been traced to a conspiracy among the seamen. It is now suggested that the missing steamer Narolic was blown up at sea. The Duke of Westminster, refering to Mr Gladstone's conduct with regard to the Welsh Church Bill, said he hod acted in an utterly unscrupulous manner, disregarding almost every shred of prin* ! ciple and honour. ' At the trials in connection wilh the Liberator Building Society frauds, in ! London, Kpntisb, who was in Hobbs' j employ as a clerk, admitted the charges i of theft and forgery, and confessed that while concealing tho frauds he lectured io aid of religious missions. The Russian Government will demand a limit of 30 miles of the coast in Beh ring Sea Islonds, and 10 miles in Eamschatka for sealing purposes. The' French Government hnve pub. lished a Note in which it is admitted that the Germans supplied the Dahomeyans with Gotling guns during the late war. The Pope declines nn audience to the German Emperor unless the ceremonial is similar to that of 1888. The Austrian War office claims to have secured the secret of tho manufac ture of a bullet proof cloth which wih resist bullets at short range.