TO-DAY'S CABLES.!

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 201, 28 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.!

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright THE PRAGUE SENSATION. RESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. THE SITUATION IN EUROPE. ITALIAN TROOPS for MASSOWAH. THE KABYLE INSURRECTION. EXPELLED FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. IPKB FBKBB ASSOCIATION.) London, December 27. The Marquis of Ripon has agreed to the proposed new boundary between the British and Dutch territory in New Guinea. A fire broke out amor gat a cargo of tobacco on tho Seneca, nnd all efforts to extinguish the flames failing the vessel was scuttled. Pabis, December 26. A public subscription has been raised in Paris to assist a large company of Russian actors, whose season at the local theatre had been an unprofitable one. The members of the company wtra on the forge of starvation (when the rolief fund was of ened. The New Zealand barque Hurunui rescued the crew of tbe Bess Waters as that vessel was sinking off Eddystone. Sir Charles Dilke Slinks jt is quite possible that a hostile coalition may be formed in Europe against England, and considers the position of affairs in Siam requires serions consideration on the part of Great Britain. Vienna, December 26. The two Czechs have confessed to murdering the man Rudolph Oroa at Prague. They state that they took the man's life because they learnt, through a speech in the Reichsrath, that he was in pay of the police. Rome, December 26. In consequence of the severe fighting which has taken place recently between the Italian troops and Dervishes, the Government are sending two more regiments to Massowah, and also shipping a large quantity of munitions of war. Morocco, December 26 The Kabyle tribes in the vicinity of Melilla have agreed to pay tlie Moors £140,000, as indemnity for the recent insurrection, in which they declared their intention of detlironing the Sultan. Constantinople, December 26 The Sultan has expelled some hundred Mabommedan geological students from tho city owing to their action in inciting the issue of placards against doctors in the city.