TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 112, 8 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright MORE WARSHIPS FOR RIO. PANAMA CANAL FRAUDS. THE COLLIERY DISPUTE. DEATH ON DR CLARK. MR GLADSTONE OBDURATE. REVOLUTION OF THE GOLD COAST. MORE RIOTS AND OUTRAGES. GAMBLING AND SUICIDE. AMERICAN TRADE REVIVING. (per puess association). Rio de Janeibo, November 7. President Piexito is equipping several warships in New York. They will sail as belonging to a private citizen, and under the American flag. London, November 7. Dr Cornelius Herz, for whose arrest a warrant was issued in Paris, in connection with the Panama Canal frauds, is improving in health, aud the French Government has applied to Lord Rosebery, Foreign Secretary, for an extradition warrant. The difference between the colliery owners and miners, re wages, is only 5 per cent, and the English newspapers strongly urge a settlement. Obituary— Sir Andrew Clark, an eminent physician, aged 67. In connection with the evictions in Mayo County, it is reported that the Chief Secretary for Ireland will institute proceedings against Messrs William Reid, M.P. for St. Patrick's, Dublin, and L. P. Hayden, MP. for Roscomman, for unlawful assembly. Mr Gladstone refuses to introduce an Evicted Tenants' Bill, or a Miners' Eight Hours Bill, during the autumn session, on the ground of diversity of opinion ; nor will he grant the Radicals a day on which to discuss the Matabeles incident. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company declared a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. Three month's bills are discounted at a shade below 2£ per cent. The miners at Wigan dynamited a hotel, the landlord of which refused to further assist the men who declined to resume work at six shilling per day. Capetown, November 7. The R.M.S, Aorangi sailed for Hobart, Wellington, and Lyttelton, yesterday. It is reported in Dublin that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Jno Redmond on the charge of inciting. Mr Gladstone was completely upset on the receipt of the nows of Sir Andrew Clarke's death. He was about to address the House when the message was brought to him, but he postponed bis speech and immediately left the Chamber. News has been received that a rebellion has broken out in Ashanleo on the Gold Coast, Western Africa, and the rebel natives have stoned the King to dcalh in Coomassie, tho capital. A body of eight hundred Houssa police have left Elmina to supress the outbreak. The well known Chinese giant Chang Woo Choo is dead, aged 47 years. Deceased, who was Bft high, exhibited him* self in the colonies some years ago. Pabis, November 7. The old Comptoir Decompte of Pans, has declared a further dividend of twelve and a half francs per share. The disorder in Marseilles continues, the police beiDg powerless to cope with the strikers. The strikers at Freque saturated cars with petroleum and then set fire to them. Beblin, November 7. A gambling scandal among military officers has come to light. A Captain who was sentenced to a term of^impnsonment for his connection with the affair committed suicide. Rome, November 7. The opening of garrisons in the higher Alps takes place in December. The press, censures the action of the authorities. Washington, November 6. Jake Gaudaur is making arrangments to race Tom Sullivan, the New Zealand sculler, over a three»mile course at Austin in Texas, Farmers in Rushville, Tennessee, hanged a family of four negroes, including a girl, owing to their having committed a number of incendiary acts. President Cleveland declares that the repeal of the Sherman Silver Law is certain to induce a revival of trade, as confidence is already restored.