Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 151, 10 June 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A rnmour is again current that Atleopp k Co. and Bass & Co. have agreed to amalgamate. The Melbourne Railway Commissioners have dispensed with the services of Mr Alison Smith, head of the Locomotive Department, and formerly of the New Zealand Railway Department. Sentence was passed in Sydney on the 11 long firm " «windlera. Carey, James, and Stewart, received each five years, G/dshaw four years, Parker two years and ten month*, and Ocle two years, the remainder were acquitted. The Vienna correspondent of the Times ■ays that after Count Kalnoky's speech th» Balkan States need not expect help from the Great Power* in case of war until they are completely pacified internally. The German press resents the tone of Count Kalnoky's speech. The Krenz Zeitung says Austria is incurably weak, and ib attempting to throw dust in the eyes of Europe. The collier Tamar collided with a North Bhore (Sydney) ferry steamer on Thursday evening. The tatter was cut ! down to the water line, and had to be beached to prevent her sinking. There j was consdernble excitement among the passengers on the ferry stenmer, but j fortunately no one wa» injured. Lord Hosiery recommends that the Dutch Government should be required to p*y £2300 compennalion to the captain of the barque Costa Hicn, improperly ■eieed in Java waters. Evidence was given at the enquiry into the affairs of the London Liberator Society that, after arranging their *win die*, the directors used to record llinnks to God, and ask for Hi* blet-siog upon the business.