TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 39, 15 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ANOTHER NAVAL COLLISION. THE L\BOR TROUBLES. ] THE POPE IN FAVOR OF THE ' FRENCH REPUBLIC. , FIGHTING AT ZANZIBAR. \ (PBB PBKSS ASBOCATION.) Buda Pesth, August 14. The Emperors of Germany and Avutria met at a hunt at Kozeg, in Hungary, on the 2lßt instant. Zanzibar, August 14. Owing to the hostility displayed towards the deposed Sultan the British tars stormed and burned Witu. Two English officers were wounded. London, August 14. The new cruiser Forte rammed the steamer Kirby during a fog oft Start Point. Both vessels wero injured, and sought refuge in Plymouth harbour. Sir Evelyn Wood hai been appointed Quarter-Master General. Mr Wrexon has given notice in the Assembly to move for the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the fiscal question. Messrs Tillott, Mann, and Hardie, on behalf of the Vigilance Committee, are appealing for funds to assist the miners on strike. Pabis, August 13. M, Dupuy, the Premier, addressing the electors, said the Government intended to bring forward social reforms ensuring to workmen rest during illness and compensation for accidents. The Pope, in an encyclical letter to the French electors, favors upholding the Repnblic, as no return to the Monarchy is now possible. A city cabman shot M. Lockroy in the breast because he would not support the late strike of cabman. Only a slight wound was inflicted. Vienna, August 14. Austria, in the hope of bringing about an amicable settlement of the commercial dispute, has offered Russia a moßt-favoved-nation clause.