TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 192, 15 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright A SERIOUS OUTLOOK. THE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. FIVE MEN KILLED, INFLUENZA AND ITS VICTIMS. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL MATCH. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, December 13. The leaders of the Towerbill movement threaten a reign of terror in London unless work is found for the unemployed before Christmas. December 14. The barque Evelyn, Captain Love, which is believed to have foundered off Wellington Heads during a heavy gale at the end of September, while bound from Newcastlo to Lyttellon with coal, has been posted at Lloyds as missing. The explosion of gunpowder -at the Government powder mills, Waltharn Abbey, has resulted in the death of five persons. The Princess of Wales is suffering from an attack of influenza, and the Speaker of the House of Commons is also prostrated by the disease. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge proposes to grant LIOOO towards the clergy endowment fund in Brisbane, and LIOOO towards the

completion of the Adelaide Cathedral. Dr Kennon, Bishop ot Adelaide, has collected L 15.000 for the same purpose. Sir Julius Yogel will read a paper at the Imperial Institute to-morrow on colonial subjects. He considers it doubtful if New Zealand would agree to federate with Australia, and believes that a Colonial Zollverein, with local froetrade, would be a signal nd<*antair-. In the Bugby football mulch to day between teams from the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Oxford men won. San Francisco, December 14 A temporary G»rerment has been set up in Hawaii, and a thousand soldiery hold the palace. Mr Bowell, ihe Canadian Commis sioner, now on his way Home, urged the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce to support (he projected cable and stean»hip lines to Canada. The American faction in the town showed great distrust of Mr Bowell, and denounced the action of President Cleveland. They threatened to have resort to violence if the monarchy wus restoreJ. Mr Bowell warmly commends the hospitality shown him during his sojourn in Australia. Washington, December 14. The Democrats insist that iron, ore and coal should be subject to import duty. It is believed Preilent Cleveland de sires that after restoring the Queen of Hawaii an Anglo American protectorateshould be established over the Sandwich Islnnds siuiar to that which controls Samoa, .