Cable Brevities
The drought in England has extended oyer a period of 58 day?, which is the longest on record. The Hull strike is quieting down, though further attempts at incendiarism bare been attempted. Bailwny companies, fearing outrages, are taking th«* greatest precautions to protect their lines and bridges. Three thousand peasants n> Jtbarkoft persisted in lying on the rails, over which a!train conveying the C«r would have to pass, until His Majesty consented to hear th»ir grievances. Before the tram was brooght'to a standstill mnny of tie peasant- were crushed, while soldiers killed many others. In tho melee 15 soldiers wore killed. The Czar was much enraged at tho peasants and quito upset with terror. Russia bas agreed, in the event of France boing attacked by a hostile Power, to send bor 600,000 men. The Bishop of Brisbane is appealing for assistance for the Church of Queensland, owing tb the losses sustained by the recent flood there, and a fuud has been opened. '
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 133, 29 April 1893, Page 3
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164Cable Brevities Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 133, 29 April 1893, Page 3
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