Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 120, 30 March 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A female parachutist made a bidloon ascent at Orange (in Sydney], but by some means the balloon caught lire, and tell 5iX) feet. Ihe parachute attached opened, nnd thus saved (lie woman's life. German colonists i:i tlic vicinity of Volga have, on 1112 to threatened famine, decided to emigrate to Americr.. The Chancellor, Count Von Capriyi, is arranging a compromise with the Liberals over the Army Hill, nnd will endeavour to induce the Catholics to assent to the measure. Throe b.inks in Nn-hville, Tennessee, hare suspended pnyment. causing a loss of 3,0<>0.000 dollars. It is reported in New York lh.it on extensive Anarchist plot has been discovered to murder foreign royalties in the event of their visiting the Chicago Exhibition as guests of the Astor family. The police are said to onfirni the rumour. The net loss involved by the failure ot Jabiz S. Hal four's group of companies at Home exceeds seven millions, including three millions swallowed up by the Liberafor Building Society. The British military authorities have tested a bullet proof uniform similar to that invented in Germany, without success. The State of Minnesota is legislating to compel the Chinese residents to adopt European dress. The Christian Worth urges? the celebration in Jerusalem in 1900 of the Birth of Christ. The New York Moiung Journal states that Anarchists are plot I in,' the murder of the Prince of Wales should he visit the Chicago Exposition. News received from Madagascar states that the island his been visited by a cyclone. Great damage was done, and Tnmatnye, the principal port on the eastern coast, was almost demolished. The residents are suffering much distress.