TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 82, 4 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

_ «, By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright THE REVOLUTION IN BEAZIL. VAST ANARCHIST PLOT. THE MATABELE TROUBLE. ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SPANIARDS AND MOORS. MANY KILLED. ANOTHER FATAL CYCLONE. 25 PEOPLE KILLED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 2. The Admiralty considers that Bonaventure type of vessd superior in guns, steam power and handiness to any of tbe Bhips now on the Australian station ; but they are willing to recommission the Orlando, send a vessel of the same class, or commission the Astra -a. ludopendant opinion confirms the suitability of the last. Obituary — Sir Arthur Blackwood, Secretary to tbe General Post Office, aged 61. Mr Dillon states that it would be equivalent to an outrage if the funds in the hands of Paris bankers were redistributed at the present moment, and no doubt it would please the enemies of Ireland to see them thus dealt with. Rio Janeiro, October 3. There is a flood and coal famine in tbe capital, but tbe rebels are reported to be fully supplied, it is estimated that they have munitions of war sufficient to last six months. The Ruahine left for England yesterday. Her frozen meat is in good condition. Madrid, October 3. News has been received that 5000 Moors attacked the Spanish garrison, 300 strong, at Meltlla, a seaport town on the North Coast of Morocco, belonging to tbe Spaniards. The engagement lasted all day, and the Spanish were defeated with many killed. Arrangements are being made to despatch reinforcements from Malaga a province of Southern Spain. Ten bombs have been found in the streets of Madrid. Pallas, tbe man who threw bombs at the troops, has confessed to the existanco of a vast plot. The Anarchists have issued a manifesto, threatening terrible vengeance if Pallas is shot. Washington, October 3. By a storm at New Orleans 25 people were killed and many injured. Capetown, October 3. A collision between Matabelle Impi and the African Chartered Company's forces is imminent. An impi of Matabeles, seven thousand strong, fired on the Chartered Company's grouts near Fort Victoria and afterwards passed in a north-easterly direction. Sir H. Loch has authorised Mr Jameson, the company's ageut, lo send a strong contiugeot to reconnoitre. Nkw Yobk, October 2. The match between the Australians and Philadelphia finished to-day, the Australians being defeated by an innings and sixty-eight runs.