Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 123, 6 April 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

The cholera has broken out in L'Orient (France), and 70 deaths were reported in a fortnight. The Chinese envoy to the Russian Ge« rernment has concluded a treaty assign* ing neutral Pamirs to China. Parisian newspapers charge the Eng* lish officers in Cairo with conniving at the torture of prisoners by crucifying and burning hands, in order to secure confessiou, and with re-introducing the Courbash into the army. ; The Kazelton Colliery in Pittsburg is I flooded, and thirty miners have beenr drowned. There is a considerable cxci lenient in j Belfast and, as there is a suspicion that mischief is brewing, tko police are shadowing prominent men. The military are being prepared for any omergeucy Mr Balfour, in his speech at Belfast, asserted that the majority in the South* west were disloyal and Ulster would not submit to Home Rule. In a sermon on Sunday, in London, Cardinal Vaughan insisted thnt the world would eventually recognise Chris* tian education not as a mere shibboleth only, but as a Christian exercise. Referring to Socialism and Anarchism, he B<ud their introduction >vas the work of the devil. The Federal Court of Ohio has flned an engine-driver for obeying the orders of a trades union- aud refusing to more a train during a strike. The Duchess of Fife has been accouched of a daughter. Mr It L. Stevenson, the novelist, in a letter to the Times, complains that Sir J. B. Thurstou, Governor of the Western Pacific, occasionally issues ordiuauccs of a barbarous nature.