TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 99, 24 October 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

BURIAL OP MARSHAL MACMAHON. THE WAR AT SOUTH AFRICA. THE SILVER~QUESTION IN AMERICA THE FINANCE~OF NEW SOUTH ! WALES conspira"cT in hayti the frozen meat trade By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright (PBB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) Pabis, October 23. MacMahon was buried yesterday, the ceremony being conducted with great military pomp. Queen Victoria and Smperor William of Germany sent wreaths. The Russian Admiral Avelon was present at Marshall MaoMahon's funeral today. In a speech which he delivered, be expressed his thanks for the extraordin. ary hearty reception the officers and men of the Russian fleet had received from the French people, and said that in the Middle Ages they had had the Truce of God, but to day it was a truce of Russia. Washington, October 22. Senator Vorhees has given notice to move that a time closure be applied in the Senate in connection with the Silver Repeal Bill. Nkw Yobk, October 23. News has been received that the rebels in the province of Rio Grand de Sul, Brazil, defeated the loyalists at Ibicui, after a severe fight. The JRoyalists lost 1000 men News has been received from Hayti of the discovery of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. A member of the Ministry has been arrested for complicity in the affair, nnd it is expected that he will be executed. London, October 22. The Daily Chronicle says that Sir George Dibbs is making strenxious efforts to recover the financial position of the colony of which he is Premier. The Times says that New South Wales, having done penance, is now beginning a new era. The Australian steamer is to take up the running of the Miowera, and will leave Sydney for Vancouver on the 17th proximo Mr Weddel expresses the opinion that the reduced demand for frozen meat is due to the miners' strike. Mr Black, of Queensland, advises the establishment of a direct meat trade between the colonies and Cardiff. October 23. Obituary— Maharajah Phuleop Singh. At a meeting held in Cork to urge the granting of amnesty to political pris« oners, Mr J. E. Redmond declared Ireland's leading position in politics was due to the action of the dynamiters which, he said, Mr Gladstone had admitted. The Times' Washington correspondent wire.* that President Cleveland approved of a silver compromise providing for the purchase of four and a half million ouuees monthly until October 189 A