TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 40, 16 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. A FATAL FIRE. EIGHT LIVES LOST. BEHRING SEA COMMISSION. THE AWARD IN FAVOR OF | ENGLAND. FRENCH GOVERNMENT ASSISTING FARMERS. INTENSE HEAT IN ENGLAND. THE FLOODS IN HUNGARY. THE SILVER QUESTION. MORE LYNCH LAW. AN ATTEMPT TO SHOOT J. L. SULLIVAN. (I'EB PBKSS ASSOCATIOJf ) Washington, August 14. Mr E. J. Phelps, tho United States dolegato to tho Uehrwg Soa Commission, domes that tho roport has yet boon drawn tip. Ho thinks it will probablj' suggest a compromise Tho Churchos ot Colorado are asking tho President to appoint a day of fasting and prayer, to atoue for tho financial distress und tho localised sins of tho nation. The Senate Hotel at Chicago has beon burned. Some of the inmates leaped from the windows, and were dashed to pieces. Eight lives in all were lost. August 15. The Secretary to the Treasury supports the Bill introduced by voucher increasing the circulation of the National Banks to the full amount of the bonds deposited. This is estimated to give a total increase of currency to the amount of nineteen million dollars, Mr Marchant, a rich landowner of Birmingham, Alabama, was shot dead by a band of outlaws. The enraged citizens pursued the murderers, shot three of the lenders, and drove three mto a swamp, where they were drowned. The fight lasted several hours. A sporting man named McClusky fired several shots at J. L. Sullivan in New York, but the pugilist escaped unhurt. Komk, August 14. The Pope's letter to tho French electors reproves a section of the Roman Catholics in France for pretendig greater solicitude for the Church than for the Vatican itself. London, August 14. Replying to a question in tho House of Commons, tho Prime Minister dechnod at tho prosont juncture to negotiate with tho United States regarding joiut action upon the silver quostion. The Times thinks it a healthy" sign to see Victoria giving attention to primary production. If this course is persevered with the value of laud must rise. Ii is impossible to doubt the eventual prosperity of the colony, \ August 15. Arrived — Lcuculm, from Lyttolton (Mny 4); Don, from Timaru (Maj 7). ! Tho Standard commends tho reports of tho Onslow Committee. Tao Scotch mine owuora have concodod ono shilling advanco. lutonso heat is being experienced in England. The award of tbo Bohring Arbitration Commission is wholly m fayor of England on the mam points. The debenture holders in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency have appointed a committee to watch their interests. It is officially* announced that the Bohring Commission award states the court decided the Behring Sea is included in the phrase " Pacific Ocean " and the United States has no property in seals outside the three miles limit of the Islands belonging to it. The court advises that stringent regulations for tho protection of seals should bo jointly agreed upon. Viknna, August 15. Floods in Galicia and Upper Hungary have destroyed an enormous amouut of crops and property of various kind. Capetown, August 10. Tho latest reply received from Lobongua is angry in tone, but not warlike. Pabis, August 15. The French Government intends to give live million francs (200,000) to help tho farmer 6 suQering from drought.