TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ROWDY SOCIALISTS' MEETING. BOATING FATALITY IN WALES. 22 LtVES LOST. ULSTER DEFENCE FUND. THE MINERS' STRIKE ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. (PEB PBKSS ASSOCATION.) London, August 8. The creditors of the Queensland National Bank have approved of a reconstruction scheme. A motion to transfer the assets of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank to tho N.S.W. Bank, has been adjourned until Thursday. Twenty-two visitors to Aberavon, in Glamorganshire, were drowned by the capsizing of a pleasure boat. The accident was witnessed by the friends and relations on shore, who were frantic at the sight. The Ulster Defence Fund has reached a quarter of a million. The Durham untie owners have refused to make any advance in wage!*, but offer to submit the matter to arbitration. The miners of Kinross and Fifeshire will strike for an advance. In consequence of stones being placed on the Tatfvale railway, an excursion train, carrying six hundred people, was nearly wrecked. The strikers are suspected. Owing to the coal strike thousands of railway hands have been dismissed, and work in the locomotive shops is suspended. The Australians in their first innings made 229. Kent are all out for 127Bebnk, August 8. Disgraceful scenes took place at a Socialist Congress at Zurich in Switzerland. Several free fights took place over the question of allowing Anarchists to be present. Washington, August 8. Mr Crisp, a Democratic member, was olected Speaker in tho House of Representatives. Sixteen Senators are opposing tho repeal of the Sherman Silver Act. Paris, August 8 Much scurrilous literature is being published in Paris with a view of influencing the elections in the capital, being made out of tho non-arrest of M. Arton, one of the men implicated in the Panama scandal. Vienna, August 8. Tho Austrian Government declines to grant the whole of the Russian demands, and the negotiations for a commercial treaty have ceased.