TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 195, 19 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

FRENCH SPIES AT WORK. THE MATABELE WAR. ANARCHISTS IN PARIS. SCULLING CHALLENGE TO SULLIVAN. POISONED AT A STATE BANQUET. THE BRAZILIAN REVOLT. By Electric Telegraph'.-rCopyriglit (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . London, December 18. The Princess of Wales, who has been suffering from influenza,' is recovering. It has been ascertained that a French spy has secured, and taken to Paris, plans of the defences of Bombay, Aden, Rangoon, and Kurachee. Espionage on the part of the French is very active at present. News has been received that further fighting has taken place on the Shangani river between Lobengnla's men and the Chartered Company's forces. Judgment has been given in the sensa tioral Culleena case. The Court found that Mrs Clarke's children wore entitled to the estate, and the children of the woman Newlaud bave'beon|excluded. Starvation is wir'espreaJ tbrongbou 1 Sicily, and a revolution is feared. TLe number of Socialists on the island is esti mated at 350.000 Washington, December 18. Gaudaur has challenged Sullivan to row a match in Texas for £500 a-side, Sullivan to be allowed expenses. St Petbbsduko, December 18. Fifteen veteran soldiers died after a banquet in Winter Palace. The cause is said to be in a pie made of putrid meat. Bio de Janiero, December 18 The President's cause is weakening. The British Minister advises the real- ■ dents to leave the city, and the business houses are being closed. Paris, December 18. Admiral Avellon, of the Russian fleet, say 8 he is unable to guarantee the loyalty of the men of the Russian Squadron if the vessels are permitted to pay frequent visits to French ports. An Anarchist plot to destroy the public buildings in Steitenno has been frustrated by the police authorities. Three arrests were made in connection with the affair. Bkrlin, December 18. Count von Caprivi has introduced a Bill in the German Reichstag lor the suppression of Anarhistß. The Emperor Francis concura in the proposal for an international agreement dealing with An* archists, and is consulting the French Government on the subject. In the Reichstag, Count- Herbert Bismarck violently attacked the commercial treaties recently entered into by Germany, stating that they would impoverish the farmers, and would be found to be equivalent to, the introduction of a freetrade policy.