LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 47, 8 October 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph — Copyright (per press association.) I-'abis, OciD. er 7. French papers, referring to the establishment of the commune of Franceville, in the New Hebredes, deny that the movement indicates any design on the part of France to annex the islands. The returns of 153 second ballots have been received, showing that 108 Republicans were elected and 45 Oppositionists, including 12 Royalists. Paris returned 22 Republicans and 14 Boulangerists. Rochefort was defeated. Rome, October 7 During a storm at Cazliari, a seaport of Sardina, 240 houses were destroyed and several lives were lost. London, October 7. The Calliope has been ordered to return home, and her crew will be paid oft". Sir W. T. Robertson, M.P. for Brighton, has committed suicide by cutting his throat during a fit of mental depression consequent on illness. Bebsin, Ooto^er?. The dock labourers at Flensburg, Id Schltßwig-Holstein, have struck. It is believed they are acting in connection with the London Unions. Sydney, October 7. A yacht containing twenty-three holiday makers was capsized in the harbour to-day. A girl named Nellie Thompson was drowned, and two other girls, named Fahey and Stewart, are missing. It is believed the rest were 8»v«d. Received October 8, 12.30 p.m. Sydney, This Day. Julias Thomas, " The Vagabond," who has recently returned from Samoa, in one of his letters on the condition of the natives there, accuses an interested individual of stopping the flow of charity from New Zealand and Australia to Samoa. In this letter he makes urgent appeal for further shipments of rice to be sent to the residents who are suffering from want of food * _^_ _— — .