TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 108, 3 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright DETECTIVES GUARDING PBESIDENT CLEVELAND. THE SILVER QUESTION. DISASTROUS FIRE. THE GOVERNOR OF NEW CALEDONIA FIGHTS A DUEL. THE ADMIRALII AND THE LOSS OF THE VICTORIA. ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTION S. (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Madrid, November 2. Prince Ferdinand, of Bourbon, is missing at Melilla. Paris, November 2 Gore Daly, grandson of Dominiek Daly, was killed in n hotel in the city today through falling from nn elevntor. A movement is on foot to secure amnesty for Comte de Paris, Due D'Orleans, and Victor Bounapnrt, in com* memoration of the visit of the Russian fleet. M . Lnffon, Governor of Nrw Caledonia, fought a duel in the oily with the editor of Libre Parole, the latter being seriously wounded. Washington, Noxeniber 2. Owing to the prevalence of homicidal mania, and the death of the Mayor of Chicago, detectives are guarding President Cleveland, and the precautions at the White House have been increased. Owing to the Senate's amendments in favour of bi-tnetallism, the RepeaJ Bill will be re introduced in the House of Representatives directly. President Cleveland is accused of selling the position of Secretary to the United States Embassy in London for I'ln.ri 0 to a political friend of the Govern rr.<m The Sherman Silver Repeal Bill is now law. Mr Cleveland is drafting a measure to I present to Congress in favor of restoring a monarchy in Hawaii. Plixoto, the President of Brazil, it negociating to acquire three now American warships. Constantinople, November 2. By a fire in the Mosque at Damascus damage to the extent of half a million sterling was done. Vienna, November 2. The Emperor announces that no internal crisis or increased expenditure will alienate his BUpport to the Triple Alliance. London, November 2. Spencer Wnlpole &uceeeds the late Sir A. Blackwood as secretary to the Post Office The Court has allowed Lord Iveagh to rescind the purchase of Savenuke estate. The Admiralty, in the minutes referring to the loss of H.M.S. Victoria, declared that the principle governing the construction of vessels was good and she would not have gone down if the bulk head bad been closed The fact of the ship turning turtle was due to the inrush of water in the foreward battery. At the municipal elections in England, the Unionists gained 97 seats, the Liberals 34, and the Labor party 10.