TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 42, 18 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. THE BEHKING SEA QUESTION. THE TIMES ON THE CAPE CRISIS. 13 DEATHS FROM DROWNING. ANOTHER PATENT SCANDAL. CHOLERA STILL SPREADING. LABOUR TROUBLES. DISTRESS AMONG THE MINERS. 130,000 MEN IDLE IN WALES. BANK OFFICIALS TO BE PROSECUTED. SILVER QUESTION. (PER PBKS3 ASSOCIATION.) London, August 17. The Times urges carte blanche should be given to the Charter Company in i Mashonaland to raise sharpshooters in I Cape Colony to mnke head against I Lobenuela. Thirteen deaths by boating and bathing fatalities were reported from various parts of the country yesterday. The season has been unusually prolific of fatalities of this kind. The Pal) Mall Gazette is publishing so rue exposures relative to patents for cordite powder which reflect most gravely upon the conduct of Sir Frederick Abel, the well-known military chemist and secretary of the Imperial Institute. The Behring Sea arbitration award prohibits both the United States and Great Britain from carrying on sealing operations within 60 miles ofthePribylov Islands, and fixes a close season. from May to July. Dr. Charcot, aged 68, is dead. The United Ireland announces that Dr Gallaghan, the dynamiter, is to be released. The Lancashire miners are begging from door to door. One hundred and thirty thousand hands are idle in Wales. Thirty passenger trains on the Great Northern lino have had to be stopped owing to tho dearness of coal. The creditors in tho Federal Bank passed a resolution that Mr Priestly ought to bo removed from the post of liquidator and a committee of six appointed in his stead. The liquidator of the London and Chartered Bank of Australia suggested, amid applause, that the Melbourne direct tors and manager ought to bo prosecuted. The Standard announces that the Opposition have determined to render the autumn session impossible. Tho Washington correspondent of the Times says it is estimated the unconditional repeal of the Sherman Silver Act will pass the Lower House by a majority of2o. The heat interferes with traffic in London. The drought has reappeared in the South of England and many dangerous cases of sunstroke were reported during tho manoeuvres at Aldershot. It is stated that Germany is contributing to the expense of the Fiji-Sainoan section of the New Caledonia cable. Washington, August 16. The race betweon Stanbury and Gaudaur for the Sculling Championship of the World and 3500d01. a side, catne off yesterday on Lake Quisigmiso. The Australian won by three lengths. He rowed a mile in smin 45sec, including a quarter-raile ipurt in 61sec. St. Pktersburo, August 16. Despite all efforts the cholera is spreading in Russia and adjoining Austrian provinces of Galicea. San Fbancisco, August 17. As the outcome of the Chicago Exhibition it is proposed to hold a midwinter exhibition here.