TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 95, 19 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright DISAPPEARANCE of a MERCHANT. £50,000 GONE. THE HOME RULE QUESTION. THE BILL NOT TO BE INTRODUCED NEXT SESSION. THE REVOLUTION AT RIO, A WARSHIP SUNK. (PEB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) London, October 18. Mr Dawson, of Glasgow, and a member of the well known firm of Australian merchants, Scott, Dawoon, and Stewart, has bolted, and it is stated he had lost a sum of £50,000 in speculation. The firm has issued a circular to clients declaring they are not affected by Dawson's loss, and that he has ceased to be a partner In the course of an address at Preston, the Marquis of Salisbury stated if the Home Rule Bill did not re-appear at the Autumn session it would be considered that Mr Gladstone hnd abandoned the measure. Denominational education, he said, was becoming one of the burning questions of the day The Home Secretary, addressing a meeting at Glasgow, announced there was no chance of the Home Rule Bill being introduced next session, which would be devoted entirely to British legislation Obituary— Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A , Bculptor, fctat 61 A match began at Toronto yestardav between the Australians and a Canadian team. The former scored 298 (Banner - man 38, Coninghaui 69). The extras amounted to 59. The Cunadianslostfour wickets for 38. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 78,080,000 bushels. A mob ot miners, numbering some thousands, attacked free labourers who were at work preventing the flooding of a colliery at St Helens, in Lancashire. Several of the latter were injured, and attempts were made to throw the others into the colliery resevoir. Many constables were wounded, and eventually they were compelled to beat a retreat. Ihe mother of the woman Thwaites charged with infanticide at Melbourne, states that she always believed her daughter was mentally affected # Paris. October 18. The French Foreign Office and the British Embassy are arranging for a buffer State on the banks of the Mekong inSiam The Figaro, com nien ting on the successful laying of the cable to Noumea, contends that it strikes a blow at the supremacy hitherto enjoyed by England in th* mak n: and laying of c .blest. The Russian sailors wer > received w i h d-lirious entbusiam on their arrival »" Fari-a Well-dressed ladies were to be seen everywhere embracing R issians in the streets. President Curnot gave the visitors a warm wtlcome on their arrival at Elysee. Nkw Yoke. October 18. Another Rio de Janie.o fort has joined the rebels The rebel warship Uruno has been in Rio harbour Chicago, October 17. The Mines Commission has assigned New South Wales forty-five awards. The same colony also obtains five awards for fruits. Washington, October 17. Senator Voorbees is organising a night session in the Senate.