TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 53, 31 August 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. , DUKE OF CONNAUGHT TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. THE APPOINTMENT CONDEMNED. GREAT FIRE IN LONDON. | I (PEB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) \ London, August 80. Mr Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a question in the House said Lord Kintore had been asked to retain the Governorship of Australia for another year, but had not yet replied. Mr Cauipbell-Bannennan, Minister for War, in replying to another question said the Duke of Connaught had superseded the eligable seniors at Aldershot. It was difficult, however, to. transfer any of the latter. The Chronicle says it is intended, ultimately, to elevute him to tho Supreme Command when the Duke of Cambridge die* or retires. There was a discussion in the House npon the Duke of Connaught's appointment to the command of Aldershot, to which some members took objection, and slighting references to his Egyptian campaign were uindo during the debute. The Daily News condemns the appointment and depreciates the pructice of permitting Princes to monopolise all posts of honor and their emoluments. A great tiro occurred iu Euston road to - day. A Inrge piano factory, containing 200 instruments, was de 6trnyod. Justice Wright officially sanctioned the reconstruction scheme of the Standard Bunk of Molboorne. In the House of Commons, Mr Curran has given notice to ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department if he has any information of the intention of France with respect to the annexation of the New Hebrides, as reported from Sydney. The Daily News asserts that the Foreign Office is not aware that France desires to annex the New Hebrides. Mr J. W. Fleming warns intending emigrants to tho colonies to beware of the enticetneut held out by Mr M. Hume ■Black, late member for Mackay in the Queenslaud Legislative Assembly, who was some time ago sent to England by the Queensland Government to promote the interests of tho colony. Mr Fleming points out that the Government of the colony which Mr Black represents, rendered no real help to the uuemplojed during the depression. Munich, August 30. PriDce Liopold, uuclo of tho King of Bavaria is assuming the administration.