TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 125, 25 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright PERISHING OF STARVATION. THE POSSESSION OF CRETE. THE SUCCESSOR OF LEO XIII. (FKB PRESS ASSOCIATION!. London, November 23. An export lecturer on electricity gave evidence that Harness admitted his ignorance of science, and that the virtues claimed for his appliances were ridiculous and impossible. The batteries were a sham, aud the whole system was delusive. Arrived — Tekoa, from "Wellington (October 1) ; Hawkes' Bay, from Lyttelton (September 2); Matatua, from the Bluff (September 3). Sir Robert Herbert hopes to be able to induce the Duke of York to preside over the Rojnl Commission in connection with the Hobart Exhibition. Owing to the closing of two refineries at Greenock, the supply of sugar is curtailed by two thousand tons per week. The Borne correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that Curdinals Vanutelli and Pictro are mentioned as probable successors of the Pope. Parts, November 24. The Anarchists dynamited the house of a Government official at Cajare, but none of the inmates were injured. Ottawa, Nor. 23. Thousands of Indians are starring in Canada, and 400 have died in the province of Quebec, including the whole of the inhabitants of one village. Athens, Nov. 23. Russia has promised to hand over Crete to Greece after the next war. Vienna, November 24. The Austrian Government has decided to increase the strength of the artillery by forty-twp batteries, thus eclipsing all other European countries in this respect Rome, November 26. The committee appointed to make enquiry into the relations between the Government and the banks has disapproved of the charge that the Government was guilty of political simony in regard to the Italian banks. The Italian Ministry has resigned. Eio dk Janeiho, November 24. The Javary's crew was saved.