HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 285, 6 June 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

OSCAR WILDE INSANE. INTERNATIONAL MINING CONGRESS. WOMEN ODDFELLOWS THE AMERICAN CABINET. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY. (Per i J ress Association. l London, June 5. It is reported that Oscar Wilde became insane when his head was shaved and he had to be confined in a padded room. Two hundred and forty -three sheep arrived alive in good condition by the Woolloomooloo. They have not yet been sold. The Directors of the Oddfellows' Society have agreed that the time has arrived for the formation of a female lodge. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company has declared a dividend of 3 per cent. Russia is reported to be sending two battalions of infantry, six mountain batteries, and eight sotnias of Cossacks Ura Tepe, within eighty miles of the Chitral frontier. The Daily Chronicle says it is reported that Mr W. Abraham, M.P. for Rhondda, and chief agent for the miners of South Wales for twenty-two years, has been offered the position of Government Arbiter in Labor Disputes in Australia. Mr Abraham says, however, that he knows nothing about the statement. Washington, June 5. The rain has extinguished the forest fires in the oil fields in North Pennsylvania. The Hon R. Olucy, Attorney-General, succeeds the late Hon W. G. Gresham as Secretary of State. Cairo, June 5. The European residents in Jpddah, fearing the Bedouins will attack the town are seeking refuge on the vessels in' the harbor. The trouble arose over the quarantine measures against the pilgrims. Paris, June /5. The International Mine Congress, sitting in Paris, has approved a scheme for limiting the output of coal by working five days for four days' pay weekly.