Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 119, 28 March 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

i It is estimated that the cotton strike > caused a loss of L 2.000.000 sterling, including LI ,000,000 in wages. A Judge in New Orleans has decided that the action of the Labour organisations in ordering a general strike is unlawful, and merchants and others were entitled to obtain an injunction in the matter. The Minister for Public Works will shortly ask the Sydney Parliament to vote a sum of L 50.000 to repair tlio damage caused by the floods. The annual report ot the Board or Health, in commenting upon the precau* tions taken in this colony to prerent the spread of leprosy, says there is a considerable amount of leprosy existing among the coloured races in New Zealand and Fiji, and as no measures are taken in those colonies for the detection and segregation of lepers, the danger may become a serious menace to the well' boing of Australia. Telegram from the Republic of Colombia states that a hill in tbe vicinity of the volcano Solasic, has upheaved iranience volumes of earth and stones, which wero hurled into the air. Hirers overflowed their banks, and *reat damage was done in tbe country. Up to the present the loss of 12 lives is reported. The London Military circles are much interested in the reported discovery of bullet proof oloih, though its complete success ia us yot uncertain. The expens of the Frenob operations against tho Dahomejans is- becoming a great drain on the public purse. Colonel Uodds, commandant of forces there, has been summoned to Paris to explain matters. A onreat has been entered against the proof of the late Mr • Abi'ngtoa' Baird's will. It is reported that be has left his property to Mrs Langtry, tbe celebrated actress.