TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 199, 23 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright THE ANAKCHISTS IN FRANCE. THE DUBLIN PROSECUTION. THE MATABELLE WAR. FURTHER DEFEAT OF THE NATIVES. THE ARDLAMONT MURDER CASE VERDICT " NOT PROVEN." GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 22. The Piiuce of Wales, speaking at the annual meeting of the Imperial Institute, said the colonial collections of natural products in the building had already resulted in practical benefit to merchants and emigrants. The Institute had made a promising commencement in advaucing the commercial and industrial interests of the colonies, and in promoting a more intimate union with Great Britain. Sheridan has been committed for trial at Dublin on the charge of having explosives in his possession. It is understood that the Midland Railway Company of Western Australia will ask the Government of flic colony to pay the interest on the debentures issued in connection with the 1893 loan. The death is announced of Sir George Berkely, who was Governor-designate of Western Australia in 1874. He was aged 74 years. Cairo, December 21. Riaz Pasha, the Premier, and other members of the Egyptian Ministry sup port the Legislative Council in its proposal to economise by refusing to pay the cost of the British occupation, and by abolishing the offices for suppressing slavery aud for the improved command of prisons. The Moslem press has also adopted « hostile attidude. Capktown, December 22. Reports from Major Forbes state hi* column is all right, and that he has repeatedly beaten the Matabelle. A native report declares Captain Wilson's scouts were defeated by Lobcngula or the 4th, beyond Shangain river, ant that the latter fled on horseback. Obituary -The Hon Ed. Stanhope who was Secretary of State for war ii the Salisbury administration, aged 53. In the Ardlamont case the judge': Slimming up was in favor of the accusec Monson, and the jury after a shor retirement returned a veidict of "no proven." flMrJos. J. Leese, Liberal, who was appointed New Recorder, for Manches ter, has been re-elected for Accringtoi in the House of Commons, defeatin) Robt. T. Hermon Hodge, Conservative who opposed him at the general election by 258. Pabis. December 22. The Anarchists threaten to dyuaniitt the Hotel de Ville in Paris. An Italian barque has been wreckec in the Bristol Channel. Ten of the crev reached the rocks, and the coastguards men descended the perilous cliffs b] means of ropes and rescued them. Madrid, December 52. The Sultan of Morocco has arranged to pay an indemnity to Spain, and gran a neutral zone round Melilla. Th< campaign is virtually at an end.