TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 50, 28 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. PUNCH'S CARICATURIST IN TROUBLE. HARRY FURNISS HORSEWHIPPED BY AN M.P. THE SIAM DIFFICULTY. FRANCE ENFORCING HER CLAIMS. A MODERN DUEL. DESTRUCTION OF A PALACE BY FIRE. SEVERAL CASES OF CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. (rEB MESS ASSOCIATION.) Capetown, August 26. King Lobengula of Matabeleland has sent further defiant letters to Sir H. Loch and Mr Cecil Rhodes. The King is said to be greatly enraged, and declines the monthly subsidy or to treat with the British South American Chartered Company regarding compensation until the Masbonas have surrendered. Paris, Aug 27. Yves Guyot, the member for Seme, and a journalist named Dcgany, fought with pistols at Long Champs yesterday, but no one was hurt. The French wheat crop is estimated at ninety- soven milhou hectolitres. Four French warships have arrived at Kohsamit to assist in enforcing the French claims in Siam. France demands the discharge of the Danish officers in the Siamese service, London, August 26. In the lobby of the House of Commons today Mr J. G. S. MacNeil, M.P. for Donegal South, caned and pulled the ears of Mr Harry Furnise, the distinguished caricaturist, owing to a hideous caricature in Punch likening MacNeil to a baboon. Tho cholera has appeared in Neuss, iv Rhenish Prussia. Four deaths are ro- | corded. Thoroaro seven cases iv England, all imported. Rome, August 27. The Nogroni Caffaralli palace, at Rome, was destroyed by fire. The inmates had a narrow oseapo, and tho fireraon showed great bravery in effeottug their rescue. Tho damago is estimated at three million bro (£120,000). Calcutta, July 27. Tho Ameer of Afghanistan mot tho political mission, under Sir 11. Daraud, in a friendly spirit. The mission is on bohalf of tho Indian Government.