TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 63, 12 September 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

l»y Electiic Telegraph. — Copyright. ILLNESS OF PRINCE BISMARCK. ANOTHER EXHIBITION FOR PARIS. MORE RIOTS IN CALCUTTA. I Per Press Association.) London, September 11. Mr L. Fletcher, of London, has beaten the world's bicjcling record for 1000 miles by over sis hours. It is reported that Sir Henry Norman is to be raised to the Peerage. A death, suspected to be from cholera, is reported from Leicestershire. The Postmaster-General declared that he will oppose the Bill granting halfpenny postage on Australian newspapers re posted within Great Britain. This action is believed to be due to the fact that the same privilege would have to be extended to American papers. The Times awards high praise to Sir A Norman for his behaviour as Governor, of Queensland and especially for his conduct during the Shearers' strikes. The Times contends that the Premier of South Australia in seeking to have Justice Way appointed as successor to Lord Kintore is aiming Rt the principle of local instead of Imperial selection of Governors, and his argument on the score of economy is merely used to cloak Ins design. The Chelsea police are enpuiring after a Melbourne man named Thwaites on a charge of murder. Sir Charles Dilke has told the Colonial Party that it must not clash with the Agents-General or interfere with the choice of Governors. He does not think the colonists desire to have direct representation in the House of Commons. Information has been received from China that 700 lives have been lost by floods at Tientsin. The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard wires that the chief Administrator of the Chinese Empire, Li Hung Chang, advises the Emperor to sanction the massacre of foreigners, especially of the English. Calcutta, September 11. Cow killing riots have taken place in Cossipoor, a town of British India, in Bengal. Troops were called out, and killed three of the rioters before order was restored. The Calcutta police have seized inflammatory Hindoo prints hostile to cow killing. Cairo, Sept. 11. The Khedive has admonished Sheiks in Alexandria for paying respect to Europeans. Pabis, September 11. A Universal Exhibition is to be held in Paris in 1900. Beblix, September 11. Prince Bismarck is serious!}' ill at Kissengen, and is unable to be removed to Frederickruho. Ottawa, September 10. Canadian merchants have sent a petition to the Queen praying that effect ruay not be given to the award of the Behring Sea Fisheries Commission, on the ground that it will ruin the sealing industry. Eio Janiero, September 10. The troops at Santa Cruz have been ordered to open fire on the warships that have revolted immediately they are sighted. Martial law has been proclaimed in the capital. Chicago, September 10. The Exhibition accounts so far show a deficit of L 3,000,000.