TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 9 January 1894, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright INTENSE COLD IN ENGLAND. MORE PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH. THE SICILIAN RIOTS. (PER FHESS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 8. Sir Walter Bailer sails for New Zealand in the Doric. Sir Andrew Clarke, acting AgentGeneral for Victoria, is urging the Imperial Institute, to sell Victorian, wines. Intense cold weather continues, and a number of people have been frozen to death in England. The Rev. Cecil Wilson, Vicar of Moordown, lias been nominated for the vacant bishopric of Melanesia. The English Scottish and Australian bank intends to introduce a bill in the Imperial Parliament enabling that institution to pay its creditors interest for the period of the suspension. The international football match England v. Wales, under Rugby rules, was won by the former by five goals to nil. Extensive wreckage has been seen off Margate, and as the channel is shrouded in fog it is feared that some accident has happened. Rio de Janiero, January 8. The insurgents have captured the island of Ungenho. Thirteen loyalists were killed and ninety four taken prisoners. Rome, January 7The Sicilian rioters tried to cut the cable communicating with the main land, and also to tear up a railway line. The soldiers charged them, and a fight ensued, in which thirty of the mob were i killed and fifty- wounded.