TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 29, 3 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

A TRAGEDY UNSOLVED. COLLAPSE op a • PORK CORNER.' THE BEHRING SEA. QUESTION. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PEK PBESS ASSOCATION.) London, August 1. The inquest was concluded to-day on the remains of Mr Richards, of Broad Stairs, a bathing place in Kent, who was killed a week ago through the explosion of a parcel brought to him through the post. The evidence adduced failed to show the cause for the outrage, and the mystery remains unsolved. The agitators assert that there are 100,000 unemployed in London. They have written to the Premier, and if he does not reply they will hold meetings outside the residences of members of Parliament. August 2. The committee presided over by Lord Onslow appointed to enquire into the question of marking of frozen ment have submitted their report. They find there has been much evasion of the Trades Mark Act. but that the offence is princi* pally confined to the retail trade, and recommended that butchers dealing in imported meat should be registered. A burglary was committed at the rest* denes of Countess Wilton at Maidenhead, and her jewels of the value of several thousand pounds stolen. The strikers at Dcwsbery attacked the working miners. The police were called on, and during the affray several of them were injured. Miss Shaw, m an article in the Times, says tticre are only two causes which are likely to arouse the cultivated classes in Australia, namely : Danger to the public finance and federation, but the public is apathetic about the latter. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a fore • cast of theßehring commission's award, predicting England's claims will be up* held throuchout, and that stringent regulations will be laid down for the future administration of the seal fisheries. An additional six hundred thousand pounds in gold has been sent to New York. The "CowesWeek," the great yecht. ing carnival of the year, opened on Monday. The Handicap Race for Her Majesty's Cup was won by the German Emperor's Meteor (better known by its original name of the Thiste). The Valkyrie was disqualified through sailing a wrong course. Nkw York, August 1. News has been received that peace has been restored m Nicaragua. August 2. The pork corner in Chicago has col* lapsed. Many failures have resulted in consequence, nnd there is great excitement, us the liabilities are said to be some millions sterling. BUENOS AYBES, AUgQst 2. The Argentine Congress has refused intervention to suppress the revolution in San Luis and Rosaria. Buda Pesth, August 2. The Hungarian harvest is largely in excess of the estimate. Beklin, August 1. The Vossische Zeitung says that Russia is trying by means of a hostile tariff to bring about a rupture between the members of the Triple Alliance. Prince Von Bismarck's organ believes that Italy is secretly allying itself with Russia, because it has no faith in Great Britain. Rome, August 1. The Pope has declined to interpose in the French elections.