TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 44, 21 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

%. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. THE HEAT IN ENGLAND. SPLENDID FRENCH HARVEST. THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE STATES. MORE FAILURES. j i FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. (PEB PBES3 ASSOCIATION.) London, August 19. Mr CampbelNßnnncrman, Secretary for War, replying to a question in the House of Commons, idmitted that Sir Frederick Abel and Professor Dewar, members of the Explosives Committee, had sold the secret of the patent cordite powder to a foreign factory. The Manchester Ship Canal will be opened in January next. The Australians won the cricket match against Gloustershirc by eight wickets. The Australians will probably piny the South of England team at the Crystal Palace, nnd Aubrey If nrcourt's eleven, at Mincham, during the last week's stay in England. The Observer says the Australian cricketers are no better than an ordinnry second class county eleven. The splendid weather helps the British harvesting and the grain is in excellent coudition. Gold to the amount of £900,000 was despatched to Now York to-day. Owing to the heat tho brigades at Aldershot paraded in their shirt sleeves. The Queen has ordered Sir Evelyn Wood to appear at Osborne to report on tho health of the troops. The total reserve in the Bank of England is £15,070,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 435. Paris, August 19. The intense heat ripened the grapes in Medoc and Bordeaux in four days. The vintage this yoar is unusually large. The French harvesting is finished and tho yield is estimated at thirty -five million quarters. Berlin, August 20. By an explosion of firedamp in n colliery at Dortmund, in Prussian Westphalia, 50 miners were killei. Nkw Yoiik, August 19. Gold is a drug in Chicago, owing to the quantities brought by visitors to the Exhibition. Financial affairs aro depressing the American wheat maiket and despite the unfavorable crop, the reports give a do creasing yisible supply. Four hundred and sixty failures are reported in the United States in a week against 95 for the same period last year. Four banks in Le Mars, the capital of Plymouth, lowa, have suspended. Thirty-three per cent of the cotton mills in the United States are closed owing to the depression. The Countess Sol/.berg has committed suicide in New York. The cause is attributed to love affairs. The Financial Committee of the Senate has reported favorably on the Bill repealing the Sherman Silver Act. Vienna, August 18. A mob of 2000 Socialists at Prague, who objected to the birthday celebrotion in honor of the Austrian Emperor, raised a riot. The police were stoned and a uumbor of houses wrecked. Brcssklls, August 20. The Belgian army manoeuvres were countermanded owing to an epidemic of dysentery and other sickness having broken out.