TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 43, 19 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I CAPTUBE OF THE MISCREANT BALFOUR. JAPAN DEMANDS HER RIGHTS. A BENEVOLENT JEW. CHOLERA STILL SPREADING. THE SILVER QUESTION. j A CYCLIST RECORD. BRANDING MEAT. (per pbkss association.) London, August 17. The Pall Mall Gazette gives publication to a statement that the sum of £'600 was privately subscribed for the purpose of abducting from Buenos Ayres J. Spencer Balfour, ex-M.P., who is wanted in England to answer the charges of fraud in connection with the management of several building societies of which he was managing director. Four victims of the Liberator Building Society undertook the work, and Balfour was secured by them. He was greatly terrified, and applied to the Argentine Republic for protection. August 18 The newly-constituted English, Scottish, nnd Australian Bank has been reopened. The Home Secretary denies the statement published in United Ireland (newspaper) that Gallagher, a dynamiter, has been released. Mr C. J. Stewart, Official Receiver, expresses the opinion that the Melbourne Committee of the Federal Bank is not such as the creditors would have selected, snd states that the responsibility of the advances rested with Mr Priestly. He considered it was advisable to consolidate the liquidation!? in New South Walep, Victoria, and South Australia. Darid Benjamin, formerly of Melbourne, has bequeathed fire hundred pounds to the Jewish Synagogue of Melbourne, and £100 each to the Lonsdale Street Hospital, nnd the Jewish Aid Society. Lord Rosebery, yielding to Sir George Dibb's arguments, has again referred the claim of the enptnin of the harque Costa Rica to the law officers of the Crown. Colonel Ferguson, formerly of Adelaide, has been appointed Professor of Tactics and Military Law at Sandhurst. Ernest Asmond, a well-known cyclist of London, yesterday d»d two miles in •fining. 2-5 sec, breaking the record. Mr Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a question in the House of Commons, declined to introduce a Bill to compel the marking of imported meat at present. San Francisco, August 10. It is reported two unknown schooners made a raid on the Pribyloo Islands, in the Behrmg Sea. The watchman was gagged and a hundred seals killed, and the stores and skins belonging to the lessees stolen. Honolulu, August IS. The Japanese Government is demanding that Japanese in Hawai shall be placed on an equal footing with Europeans, but the Provisional Government refuses. Calcutta, August 18. Surprise and indignation are expressed in India at Lord Kimberlejr permitting silver to be sold below 16d. The market is demoralized and Chambers of Commerce arc protesting. Rome, August 18. Cholera is spreading in Turin and Southern Italy.