CABLE SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3034, 25 July 1893, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

The French elections take place on August 20. Nearly half a million miners oeaae work on Friday. The President has remitted a year of Blondin's sentence (one of the Panama convicts), Schouppe, an escaped convict from New Caledonia, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, at Brussels, for Anarchism. The " Standard's" correspondent say» that Russia has doubled her forces on the Austrian frontier, and they are Dow on a war footing. The British East Afrisa Company evacuates Witu on the 31st. The Company petitions the Government to buy them out of the coast zone for £180,000. Eighty deaths from typhoid fever have occurred at Worthing, m Sussex. The victims are buried at night, aad all excursion trains to town are stopped. The Loan and Mercantile Company Directors are negotiating with Baron Schroder previous to settling the details of the re-construction scheme. Twelve arrests of Nihilists hive been effected at Khartov, including some female : students, of persons charged with plotting to bring about the annexation of the Ukraine by Austria.

The English "Tablet" states that Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, is seriously ill at Dublin, and that, acting on the advice of his medical attendants, he will shortly leave there to seek a warmer climate.

Lieutenant Kennedy, of Napier, ccored 185 points m the second stage for the Queen's prize at the National Bine Association Meeting at Bisley. Nothing under 189 can compete m the final stage.

The appeal of Makin against condemnation to death for infanticide at Sydney, has been dismissed. Lord Herschell said that the evidence objected to was admissible, and the reasons for the decision would be given later. The "Daily News," discussing the decision, considers the Privy Council rightly refused to entertain the appeal.