TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 121, 20 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

■*•> — END OF THE MATABELE WAR. THE COLLIERY STRIKE ENDED. ENGLAND AND THE AMEER. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright j (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) ' London, November 19. ' Major Forbes, who commanded ene of i the columns against King Lobengula, has i been fcnzetted High Commissioner of Buluwajo, ( Severe gales have been experienced . along the British coast, and many vessels have been driven ashore. There has been much loss of life and property, and in the inland towns falling chimneys caused sad destruction. The death is announced of Lady Bowen, wife of an ex-Governor of New Zealand, from bronchitis. Lord Bury is dead. The conference regarding the miners' strike bas decided that the men shall re-» sume work at the old rates until February, and that a Conciliation Board, comprising 28 delegates from the mine-owners and the miners shall be appointed forthwith, the board to continue in office for one year and to determine the rate of wages from time to time. The appointment of tho chairman of the board, and the casting vote (if necessary) virtually rests with the Speaker of the House of Commons. There is great relief throughout the country at the settlement of the difficulty. Capetown, November 19. King Lobengula's impi are situated 20 miles north of Buluwayo, and Major .Adams has sent a mounted patrol to endeavour to arrange the terms of peace. Calcutta, November 18. The Ameer of Afghanistan bas agreed that Chitral, Lajoursivat, and the adjacent states, Indus, Kohistan, and Wazristan, shall come under British influence. The withdraws his charge?, and re* ceives nn additional six lakhs of rupees annually. *