Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 124, 8 April 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

I New Zealand contributed the sum of LIO.OOO to the Queensland Belief Fund, exclusive of produce and other articles. The executive of the Flood Committee desire to express their hearty and sincere appreciation of New Zealand's splendid generosity; Replying to a deputation the Minister for Public Works (Sydney) states that he predicted severe distress during the winter. He added that oyer 900 members of the clerical staff of his department would be dismissed shortly, in order to carry out the pnhoy of economy adopted by the Government. Unionists refused to unload a steamer at Hull, and attacked the firemen, on whom they fired thrice. They also at« tempted to drown one non-unionist, but the police succeeded in rescuing him. Mr Chas. Wilson, M.P., and his brother ' were among the mob on4be quay. Wright, the solicitor recently »em» fenced, in London, to 12 years'imprisonment in connection with the Liberator Building Society frauds, has a fortune of LIOO.OOO, chiefly unseizable. At the Behring Sea Arbitration in Paris a scene occurred; Mr Phelps, the American delegate, alleging that England's attitude was unjust and humiliating to America. ' Mr Charles Russell, tho British delegate, protested against Mr Phelps' passion, nnd said it was usele-s for America to attempt to bounce the Commission. j? Intelligence from New Hebrides states that the recent gale experienced in -'tha Group was the most severe experienced for 8') years. The epidemic of dysentery there is very bad, and the Rev Watt, Missionary at Tauna, is very ill. The Frencn warship Scorff is at the Group attending to the imniediats wants of; sufferers