TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 56, 4 September 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

liy Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. THE BECENT CYCLONE. THE SILVER QUESTION. MASHONALAND TROUBLES. [Per Press Association.] London, September 1. The Welsh members of the House of Commons have resolved to secede from the Liberal Party unless the Disestablishment Bill is passed next year. In the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said the Government approved of the British South African Chartered Company increasing their forces in Mashonaland. It is stated that Mr Cecil Rhodes has 1000 armed men ready for service. On Monday Mr Gladstone will move that the whole of the autuirm session shall be devoted to Government business, and he has stated that no motions tabled, with a view of obstructing business, would bo permitted. Washington, September 1. News has been received from Beaufort county that thousands of negroes at Port Royal, who are in a destitute condition are fighting for food. The mortality resulting from the cyclone is estimated at 1000. The silver men in the Senate are giving way, and it is believed that there will be a majority of 40 in favour of the repeal of the Sherman Act. September 2. The cyclone killed 1000 in Beaufort county alone, and all the negroes except three. Paris, September 1. Despite the newspaper agitation, it is believed that the British and the French Cabinets have virtually come to an agreement over the Siatu difficulty. During an election meeting in the city tc-day, two shots were fired at M. Floquet, but he escaped uninjured.