TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 119, 17 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

NEW MODERATOR FOR THE FREE CHURCH. MORE BRITISH CAPITAL FOR AUSTRALIA. ANOTHER DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. CHAMPION CHESS MATCH. A DEPUTATION SNUBBED. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 16. Tbe Rev Mr Douglas has been nominated as moderator of the Free Church. Tbe Scotsman declares that many of the Scottish Insurance Company s are largely investing capital in Australia, and it is reported that an influential Trust Company is being established to invest in real estate in Australia.. The Standard says that Greece is offering the State creditors ten shillings in thc£ In committee in tbe House of Commons on the Employers' Liability Bill, a clause making employes a third party in suits for negligence was rejected by a majority of 100 votes. Miss Jessie Ackeraiann sails in the Orotava for the colonies to attend (he Temperance Convention in Sydney. The prices realised at the wool sales will largely depend on the settlement of the coal strike. The ship Mooltan, bound from New castle, N S W., to Valparaiso, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. The conference regarding the colliery strike will be held ou Friday. Lord Herschell snubbed a large depu tation of Radical members, declining to submit to their dictation with regard to the appointment of country magistrates. Sir John Gorst defeated Mr Asquith, Home Secretary, in the election for the Rectorship of Glasgow University, by a majority of 221 votes. Lite St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that Austria and Germany are willing to allow Russia and France a free hand against England. Some, November 16. It is reported that Count Knlnoky is .if raid that Italy may withdraw from the Triple Alliance. St. PETEHSBrKG, November 16. A chess match, played between Tarrasch and Tchigonn, ended in a draw, each winning nine games, while four games were drawn. Madrid, November 18. The Barcelona police have arrested the president and members of a Trades Society who were caught in the act of making bombs. Paris, November 16. A house occupied by the Commander of the troops in Marseilles has been much damaged by the explosion of a dynamite bomb. As the result of tbe recent war in Dahomey, when his forces were defeated with great loss, King Behanzin is negotia* ting for terms of submission to France.