TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 196, 20 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright > THE ARDLAMONT TRAGEDY. NEW ZEALAND FRUIT TRADE. !' THE BRAZILIAN REVOLT. INTERESTING BILLIARD MATCHES. RUSSIA'S WAR PREPARATIONS. PREVENTION OF CHOLERA. THE SITUATION IN HAWAII.

(PER PEEBS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 19. Geo. Sweeney, a witness at the Ardlaniont murder trial, said he believed his brother, who is supposed to be identical with the missing witness Scott, had gone to Australia owing to ill health The London Hank of Australia will pay depositors a first instalment about July instead of in 1898. India is importing large quantities of silver, owing to the expected imposition of a duty on the metal. The newly-appointed fruit expert for New Zealand recommends the export of apples from the colony, as it is expected that there will be a scarcity of Canadian and American fruit this season. He is preparing lists of suitable varieties of apples for export to England, with advice as to the best inerns of packing. The Turkish fleet is being dismantled as tho difficulty of procuring coal renders it incapable of defending the B sphorup. A European Commission is being appointed to arrange for the construction of a great reservoir in Upper Egypt, with a view of tapping the Kile for irrigation purposes. The Australian and New Zealand Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 12s 6d on the preference shares for the half-year. Dawson, the English billiard player, and Memmott, of Melbourne, have begun a series of matches, 700 up, spot barred, at the Aquarium. Memmott. receives 100. The sporting press highly compliment him. St Petebsbitiio, December 19 Russia is buying large quantities of munitions of war in America. China declines to- surrender to Russia the Valley of the Murghab, in the Pamirs. This locality affords a comparatively easy access to India. Pahis, December 19. An International Congress to consider the best means of coping with the outbreak of cholera meets in Paris in January. Admiral Reiner cotnplains of the French torpedo boats being defective. Washington, December 19. The President, in a message to Congress, states that as the Queen of Hawaii de* dines to grant an annesty to all political offenders, the American Minister at Honolulu will desist from the effects to restore the Monarchy. Bio dk Janeiro, December 19. The President's cruiser Nichtheroy has reached Pemambuco, and lias been ordered south.