TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 97, 21 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

, By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright MRS BESANT TO VISIT THE COLONIES. THE SILVER QUESTION. | ANOTHER FAILURE. ARREST OF NIHILISTS. THE VATICAN AND EUROPE. RUSSIA AND BULGARIA. THE STRANDING OF THE MIOWERA. (PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 20. Sraythe, the welNknown theatrical agent, b:»s engaged Mrs Besant to visit Australia next August. The Standard states that 100,000 sovereigns have been withdrawn from the Bank of England for Sydney, and more will possibly follow. The Daily News correspondent says if the Senate does not repeal the Sherman Act the President will suspend its opera tions in order to avert a national crisis. Carlisle, Treasurer, estimated there will be a deficit this year of 50,000,000 dollars. J. W. Chappel, a London builder, is bankrupt. His liabilities amount to a quarter of a million. Tbo men on strike at St Helens dynamited the colliery fireman's house. The success of the West Australian loan is aHsured. The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Rome writes that the Vatician views the European outluok with apprehension, and that it is rumoured that the Pope is meditating the advisability of leaving Rome. It is also reported that he is investing largely in England. It id reported that Servia, Greece, and Montenegie are forming nn alliance against Bulgaria. Thin is looked upou as a triumph for Russian diplomacy. Lloyd's agent telegraphs that it is practically hopeless to float the Miowera without serious damage. The insurance premium now demanded is 80 guineas. For tho West Australian loan of half a million, with a minimum of 97 J, the sum of Jt'686,000 was subscribed at an average of £98 5s 2s. Holden, arrested in London for forgery, was convicted and sentenced to four year's imprisonment. Nbw Yobk, October 20. In the match against Detroit, the Australians declared the innings closed when tliey had lost 8 wickets for 302 runs. The Detroits « cored only 73 in the second innings, thus losing the match by an innings und 175 runs. The lushest scorers in Ihe remaining portion of the Aus* tml inns innings were Bruce 109, and Tnimhle 30. In the second innings G Giffen took 8 wickets for 32 runs, and I'rott 8 for 29. Pabis, October 20. Marshal MacMnhon will receive a public funeral on Sunday. The Czar has ordered all the Russians in Paris to attend. St Petebsbukg, October 20. Fifty medic*] students, suspected Nibilißts, were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of a police spy. Calcutta, October 20. It. is reported that the Ameer of Af gloniatan has sold 10,000 Hazara captives to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the revolt.