HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
AUSTRALIAN MEAT IN AUSTRIA. A RACE HORSE SOLD FOR £18,000. A FATAL ACCIDENT. ROUGH TREATMENT OF SOCIALISTS. CAPETOWN TROUBLES. A NAPHTHA SPRING ON FIRE. SEVENTEEN PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. [PBB PHKB3 ASSOCIATION I London, October 19. Dr Jamieson has been created a Companion of the Bath, in recognition of his services in Matabeleland. Lord Drumlanrig was killed by an accidental discharge of his own gun while shooting at Brigewater. Brusselb, October 19. In the elections for the Belgian Chamber the Socialists won nineteen seats. The Catholics lost eight, but still retain a working majority. The Liberals lost seventeen. Viekka, October 19 The Central Sanitary Council of Vienna has decided in favour of permitting the importation of Australian meat, subject to stringent precautions against disease. The Jockey Club of Vienna has bought the racehorse Matchbox for £18,000. Ten thousand Socialists, who demanded the extensien of the franchise, marched to the Reichfirath. A body of 600 police surrounded the building, and a fierce fight took place, 15 of the Socialists being sabred. Tiflis, October 10. A naphtha spring at Grosney, near Tiflis, caught fire. The flames spread with lightning-like rapidity, and seventeen persons were enveloped and perished. Capteown, October 19. The Transvaal Government has announced a determination to manage the Pretoria and Delegoa Bay Railways tariff independently of Cape Colony.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 99, 20 October 1894, Page 2
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