TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 93, 17 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright FAILURE OF A LONDON FIRM. THE MATABELE TROUBLE. * . ii ILLNESS OF GOUNOD THE COM- ?' POSER. ! THE SILVER CRISIS. J THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN I AMERICA. J ~~ y (PEB PBESH ASSOCIATION.) J, London. October 16. Messrs Brooks, McGlashan, and , McHarg, dealers in feathers, flowers, and laces, have called a meeing of their creditors. The liabilities are set down at £40,000, and an offer of 15a in the £ -. was accepted. Henry Holden alias Henry Kready, pleads not guilty to the charge of forgery j preferred against him. He will be tried on Wednesday H<-lden is believed to . haye been connected with heavy forgeries in Sydney a short time ago. ] The Peace Congress has asked Mr Gladstone to invite the nations of the earth to conclude treaties binding them ' to have recourse to arbitration to settle , disputes. ' It is reported that the Nationalists are thinking of appointing Mr A. O'Connor, member for Donegal East, their leader ' instead of Mr Justin Macarthy. ' Mr John Burns, addressing a meeting ' at Hyde Park, said that the miners were winning a great battle. Forty per cent ' of the men bad returned at the old rate of ' wages. ! One hundred thousand workmen paraded Hyde Park in support of the miners who are on strike. [ Princess Marie of Roumania, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, has been delivered of a son. Eight deaths have occurred at Greenwich Workhouse, and 200 inmates are ill. The race for the America Cup will cost each of the competitors £25,000 Washington, October 16. The Senate resumes its sittings to day. The President will meet the opponents of the Repeal Bill in person. Mr Yoorhees says the fight has only begun, and that the ultimo te victory of the opponents of the Sherman Act is certain. The cause of the railway accident at Jackson was that the air brake upon one of the trains failed to act. The list of the casualties has been reduced to 18 killed and 60 injured. Capetown, October 16. Sir F. Carrineton considers Lobengula a clever savage, and his warriors bloodthirsty devils, and that to be on the safe side the company's forces ought to be increased. Mr Cecil Rhodes is hurrying supplies by the Bevia railway for the Chartered Company's forces. New Yoke. October 16. The Vigilent, not the Valkyrie, won the last heat for the American Cup, and has therefore won three out of five contests. The Mowera is a week overdue from Australia to Vancouver. Paris, October 16. Gounod, the composer, is suffering from apoplexy and is in a critical state.