CABLE SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3081, 18 September 1893, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

Admiral Tryon's will has been proved at under £30,000, A national subscription is being made in France for the purpose of entertaining the Russian fleet. Sir Charles Dilke holds that England cannot dream of joining the Triple Alliance, which is essentially an instrument of war. The city of Toledo in Spain is flooded.. Immense damage has been done, and forty persons have been drowned. Heavy floods have been experienced in Newcastle, England, and the residents are fleeing to the high land. Mtany lives have been lost. Kews has been received that owing to an outbreak of smallpox, the threatened attack of the Impis on Port Victoria is unlikely to take place. Slavin is arranging a match between Stanbury, the champion rower of the world, and the winner of the race between Bubear and Sullivan on September 25. Immense preparations are being made in France to entertain the Russian fleet, which is to visit Toulon while the British fleet is visiting Italian ports. There have been riots* in various parts of Spain, especially in Navarre and the towns of Tarazona and Oordova against the collection of taxes. The military were called out, and many people were shot. Mr Gladstone will address a meeting in Edinburgh on the 27th instant. It is expected that the deliverance will be of an importance character, and that he will attack the House of Lords over its action respecting the Home Rule Bill, In the yacht race between Cowes and Cherbourg the judges have now reversed their decision, and awarded the victory to the American yaoht Navahoe. The former decision was that the Prince of Wales' yaoht Britannia had won by two seconds. Professor J, S. Burdon Sanderson, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in his address at the annual meeting, said that England is the only country which refuses to incur the necessary outlay in the interests of science. Her study of infectious diseases is inferior to that in other countries.