TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 204, 2 January 1894, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

» By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL BAKER. MARKING FROZEN MEAT ROYAL PLEASANTRIES. MURDER OF AN ENLISHMAN. TWENTY PEOPLE DROWNED j (PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 31. Obituary- Sir Samuel Baker, the celebrated explorer, aged 72. At a meeting of shareholders in the Greta colleries, accounts showing a debit" balance of ±"20,000 were rejected. A Committee was appointed to consider the propriety of suspending work till trade revives. It was stated that the excessive price paid to miners rendered the payment of a dividend remote. January 1. The Admiralty plans of torpedo fittings has been stolen from Portsmouth. In reply to a question Mr Mundella said the Government would not be able to bring in a bill at an early date to provide for the compulsory marking of Foreign Meat. It is believed the Duke of York will reply that he is highly flattered at the request of the Australasian colonies, but he will require time to consider. He is consulting the Queen and the Prince of Wales. The Princess' accouchment is expected in May. Professor Marshall, of Owen's College, Manchester, was killed by falling over a precipice on the Scowfoll. I The Admiralty have ordered the construction of a first-class cruiser to steam twenty-four knots. Three hundred police prevented a demonstration of the unemployed at St. Paul's on Sunday night. Calcutta, January 1. The Indian National Congress passed a resolution regretting the closing of the mints on the ground that the action of the Government would hnrden the people in their feelings of hostility and dislocate trade. Romk, Janunrj 2. An Englishman named Alleuder was murdered and robbed in the hills near Monte Carlo. Amsterdam, Deeeml er 30. During a dense fog which prevailed here 79 people fell into cannls and 20 were drowned.