TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 191, 14 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph;— Copyright STRENGTHENING THE BRITISH NAVY DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA. HEAVY GALES ON THE COAST OF ENGLAND. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. FATAL EXPLOSION OF GUN* POWDER. CAPTURE OF LOBENGULA. SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, December 13. Tbe Admiralty has informed the Agent* General for Viotoria that the statement to the effect that the Crescent is to replace the Orlando is not true, and that the latter vessel is to be retained on the station. The agitation for an increase in the Navy continues. A great meeting of merchants, bankers, and all classes of the public, convened bj the Chamber of Commerce, bas been held in London, Mr Pollit presiding. A resolution was carried urging the Government to take immediate steps to insure the naval supremacy of Great Britain irrespective of cost St. James' Gazette states that it is expected that the Admiralty will expend the sum of six millions sterling in the construction of vessels of the Royal Sovereign class, though on an improved scale. At the Cabinet meeting, Mr Gladstone and Sir W. V. Harconrt reluctantl? supported the vote for the increase of the navy. Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that the question was one reqniring immediate action. The deaths from influenza in London during the week numbered 127. Severe gales have boon experienced on the south coast of England. Great dam age was dor* to churches and at the rail way stations and several lives were lost. TheDailv News believes the Indian Government will shortly propose an import duty on silver. An explosion of gunpowder occurred at the Government powder mills, Waltham Abbey, in Essex. Two persons were killed and a number injured and much damage was done to the property. The most minute precautions are being taken at Dublin barracks owing to infor* mation received that tie djn.mi'crs intend to make an ittempt upon them. Mr Gladstone is much effected by the discovery of the body of an old valet of his named Meadoc Outram, in the Thames, It is believed to be a case of suicide. A man named Meas, a clerk in the City charged with stealing £20,000 committed suicide in the presence of his employers. Capbtowk, December 13. Major Forbes has captured Lobengula. The evidence given at the trial of Monson i«, up to the present, in the direction of showing that the theory that death was the result of accident is unlikely, as the pellet marks on tbe tree do not coinoide with the direction of the wound.