Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 138, 11 May 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Half a million Cubans now residing in the Unitt-d States are supporting a movement to free the island from Spanish rule Tbe agiUtors are said to be well provided with funds. A detachment of Uruguayan Cavalry repulsed a band of BrnKtlinn horsestenlers and killed 45 <>f their number. The troops lost 12 men themselves. The Times, commenting on the Parliamentary paper relative to the dispute between Lord Glasgow arid the New Zealand Ministry respecting the appointments .of Legislative Councillors, says a precedent was established which will reduce the range of questions left to the discretion of colonial Gvernors to a vanishing point. The French Chamber of Deputies has unanimously resolved in favour of the compulsory registration of foreigners, and a watch being kept on their changing residence. The French press in the Dominion ■lieges that the Government officials have tampered with the census and disfranchised 50,000 Frenchmen. The Berlin press doubts Count von Caprivi's success at tbe forthcoming elections, and delares that Germany's limit has been reached by the neverincreasing military pressure. The London city Aldermen passed a motion condemning the Lord Mayor's toast to the Pope at the banquet to Cardinal Vaughan. Lord Mayor Knill denied that he bad exalted the Pope above tbe Queen, and regretted that he had been misunderstood.