TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 55, 2 September 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. THE CHOLERA SCARE. PRANCE AND SIAM. MAD WITH JEALOUSY. I Per Puess Association.] London, September 1. It is rumoured tbat Earl Kin tore will receive a Marquisate if he consents to retain tho Goverornsbip of South Australia. Great precautions are being taken against the cholera, and at Grimsby all traffic both inward and outward is prohibited. Tho Times correspondent wires that M. Devilliers, French enyoy at Siatn, has abandoned his violent attitude and is now conducting negotiations quietly on the basis of the original ultimatum. The British gunboat Swift has been sent to Bankok. Lieutenant Hamborougb, whose death was reported yesterday by cable, was a wealthy American. His life was heavily insured and the policy assigned to Mas» ton. Death was caused by a gunshot wound. The Lords have again rejected the betterment clause in the Land Act. The attempt to incite the French to the annexation of the New Hebrides is Attributed to win* "pullers who are anxious to force Australia to purchase Higformer interest in the island*. The Standard states that French annexation of the New Hebrides is obviously intolerable, and it is requisite that the British Foreign Minister should be on the alert. Washington, August 31. Senator Sherman contends that it is the fear of tariff revision which has caused the depression. Pabis, Aug. 31. A jealous wife at Perpignan, in South France, saturated her dress with petro* leum, set fire to it, and clasped her husband in her arms. Both were immediately enveloped in flames and terribly burned. The man went mad with fear and pain, and the woman died in a few minutes. Zanzibar, August 31. A British warship is engaged punishing the murderers of Superintendent Hamilton at Kismayu. Two villages have been burned.