TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 90, 13 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright . THE MATABELE TROUBLE. j (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) 1 London. October 12. a It is expected that Sir Frederick Carrington, formerly Commandant of the 8 Native Forces in Zululand, will bave command of the expedition against j Lobengula. c The Lancashire and Cheshire miners, acting under the pressure of the leaders, refuse to resume work nta reduction in wages. Tbe Nottingham miners have 1 resumed work at tin* old rate- { Lore Elgin succeeds the Marquis of ( Lansdowne as Viceroy and Governor- ] General of India. Tlte announcement of the appointment has bren fairly well ] received. . At the annual meet mi; of shareholders in tbe New Zealand Shipping Company, held to-day, the Directors' report and * balance-sheet were adopted, and the re- < tiring Directors re-elt-cted. i News has leaked out that a French cruiser was convicting the Siamese in* j demnity of 3,000,000 francs (£120,000) to , Saigon, and was caught in a storm and j sunk. The treasures were not insured. , The Lancashire and Cheshire miners, acting under the pressure- of their leaders, ' refuse to resume work at any reduction in wages. The Nottingham miocrs have ' resumed at the old rite. i The Vienna correspondent of Tbe Times i says that a profound sensation bas been ( created is Austria by a rumour that Count Taafe intends to grant the demands of the i Socialists. Bf.klin, October 12. A man was arrested in Berlin m the * act of murdering a girl. He is believed ( to be the perpetrator of another murder 1 at Nciss, in Silisia, on Sunday. I Capetown, October 12. ; King Lobengula is sending a lot of his property down to Zambesi, nnd has pro vided a fleet of canoes to secure his retreat if necessary. 1 Mr Cecil Rhodes believes that the Matnbelcs will be crushed iv a month. 1 Kin-; Lobengula, with four of his best ' re uinieuts, is stationed on the Shangani rirer, and is quite prepared to fight. Washington, October 12. ' The Chinese Government has requeued 1 the suspension of the Chinese Exclusion | Act in the United States. 1 The stonewalls in the Senate over the Sherman Act Repeal Bill continues. The ' Senators opposed to the memure are now 5 provided with beds in the Chamber. ' The eighteen of Boston scored 88 runs against the Australians The Australians, who plajed ou, were all out for 65. St Petebsbuho, October 11. Russia is building three ironclads aud several torpedo ships in the Black Sea. New Yokk. October 12. A sensational mcident occurred during tbo race for the American Cup ; a yacht, owned by Asters, twice collided with a - crowded ferry boat, and tho latter had to ' be beached.