TO-DAY’S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 136, 8 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY’S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright THE LATE PROFESSOR TYNDALL. ATROCITIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS INFLUENZA IN LONDON. (FEB FBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 6. Professor Tyndall, who died from an overdose of chloral, suffered from insomnia The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2 936,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,196,000 quarters. The American visible supply of wheat is 96,600,000 bushels. December 7. Professor Tyndall’s wife administered the chloral in mistake for magnesia His body will.be cremated. It is reported that the Admiralty will build immediately one first-class cruiser, four battleships, and fourteen torpedo catchers of the Havoc type. The Daily News asserts that Sir G. Portal’s report recommends that Uganda should be included in the Zanzibar protectorate. The Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia show a profit of £29,400 for the year. No dividend will be paid on the ordinary shares and only half a year’s will be paid on the preference shares. The Directors attribute the shrinkage in the revenue to the drought, the low price obtained for wool, and the general depression.. There is an alarming increase of in fluenza in London, and many deaths have been recorded About 10,000 [miners in Scotland are locked out. Rio de Janielo, December 7. The engines of one of the warships recently purchased in New York by tne President have been wilfully disabled. Sir Wilfred Lawson and other members of tbe House of Commons demand •hat the Local Veto Bill shall extend over tbe entire Kingdom. News has been received that a diamond weighing 140 carats has been found at Jagersfontein, South Africa. Pabiß, December 6. Two brothers named Rodrigue are being tried at Brest on a charge of piracy and mnrder. It is alleged that during a voyage of a schooner in the South Seas they shot the captain and poisoned the crew, and enslaved a number of Kanakas. The cook of the vessel revealed the crime. New Yobk, December 7. The strike of railway men at Lehigh, in Pennsylvania, has collapsed. Madame Melba’s debut here in “Lucia” was a great triumph.