TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 45, 22 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

♦ i By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. 400 DEATHS FEOM CHOLERA.. RUSSIA AND FRANCE TO INCREASE THEIR ARMIES. _ j TWENTY PATIENTS BURNED TO . DEATH. i (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, August 21. The 3oTernment allows half the Indian salaries remitted to England at tho rate of 18d per rupee. Four hundred deaths by cholera are reported from Kieff, in Russia, where they are said to average 30 a day. It is raging to an alarming extent in Rome and Naples, many deaths occurring daily. The Corporation of Edinburgh has conferred the Freedom of the City on Lord Roberts. The Tongariro left Plymouth for Wellington and Lyttelton on Saturday H.M.S Hood, 14 guns, replaces the illfated warship Victoria on the Mediteranenn station. The Daily Chronicle states that tho piny of the Australians is disappointing when opposed to the best English eleven. It considers the bowling of Turner is equal to the best English. The Premier of New South Wales has invited the Canadian Delegation to visit Australia about tho middle of September. The invitationjwill probably be accepted, and Mr McColl, Minister of Trade and and Commerce, will most likely be chiet delegate. The Aorangi arrived at Plymouth yesterday with meat in good condition. The ship Turakina has sailed for Auckland and Lyttelton. Paris, August 20. There ara over two thousand candidates for the general election. The Royalists are downcast, but the Bonapartists are enthusiastic. It is believed that a clear majority for the supporters of the Republic is assured, even at this stage. The French elections are going in favour of the Republicans. All Ministers are re-elected. Owing to the passage of the German Army LJill, JLinssin anil France nrc parleying about an increase of their military resources. August 21. The results of eighty-six elections are known and thirty-six second ballots, including M M. Lockray, Floquet, Goblet, and Andrieux. M. M. Brisson and Clemenceau have been returned. M. Drumot was defeated. The results of 610 elections are known. The .Republic ins have rjtuine 1 309, Radicals, 141, Conservatives, -it. The Republican* gain, so far, h 46. St. pKTKRsnuRG, August 20. A hospital at Kaluga was burned, and twenty inmates perished.