Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 147, 1 June 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A. quarter of a million people visited the Chicago Exhibition on Sunday. Disastrous floods hare occurred in the Southern Tot ton States. Ten thousand people have been rendered homeless. The Pope y «t Cardinal Vau«han's request, has made St Peter the patron saint ot the English Boma/i Catliolics. Mr Gladstone { said tint,' after the Home Bulc Bill-is fmsseJ. the Liberals will show they are in earnest by promotto* social reform*. He says he nevefr knew * party more determined. The Duchess of Sutherland has been lnterriewed upon her imprisonment and its canse. She said the letter destroyed by her referred to a ware; family scandal which the Dokc^as anxious to suppress. She described the loneliness of (he prison as terrible. The Victorian Cabinet has decided that Sir Matthew Davies and Mil ledge were wrortff in httfrinit the colony while the case against them was pending, and stepM wiSl be taken to swear fresh, in* formations if (her do not return to Melbourne. . Sir Bryan O'Loughlen, Attor-ney-Genera], objeet«d io this decision. A cyclone struck vessels unloading in the Say of Bengal. There were many casualties, and 64~per*ons were drowned, M, Plonrens, in the Chamber of Dep utiett, announced that France intends to permanently occupy [Khong, in order to secure the control. of the Mekong river, They did notAjaitnd to tillow their colonies in farther India to perish under the British knife. . The depositors and the shareholders in the Citjr of Melbourne Bank have accepted the reconstruction scheme.