HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 112, 6 November 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

_ «. _ THE MUSIC HALL HUBBUB. FIGHTING IN INDIA. [PEB PBE9S ASSOCIATION.! London. November 4 In tho course of an interview Sir ! Thomas Sutherland, Chairman and Joint i Managing Director of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company advocated the establishment of an Imperial depot at Sydney for the storago of war material for the use of vessels selected as armed cruisers in case of emergency. The Times says Lord Jersey's report is favourable to the Pacific cable project. The Empire Music Hall was re-opened on Saturday night. At the close of the performance the audience wrecked the partitions closing tho promenades, and thus restored tho latter in their old form. For some thno the hall was the scene of great tumult. The Times says there is good reason to believe that the United States will conseut to Hawaii leasing Bird Island for tho purpose of laying the Pacific cable. Calcutta, November 4. The Waziris crept on the camp of the delimitation party in the middle of the night, and rushed the picket?. The rebels were charged by a military escort, and a desperate hand to hand encounter ensued. Lieutenant MacAule}', two native officers and 44 men were killed, and five European officers and 34 men badly wounded. The Waziris had 250 killed, besides a large number wounded. Cavalry pursued the rebels among the hills.