HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 315, 16 May 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

BOATING FATALITIES AT HOME. THE BRITISH NAVY. DEATH OF PROFESSOR MORLEY. CAPETOWN DELEGATES TO THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE. PRESIDENT PEIXOTO AND THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT. STRIKE OF LONDON CABMEN. THE PEOPLE AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE. [per press association 1 London, May 15 An exceptionally large number of boating accidents were recorded throughout England yesterday. At Ipswich a party of six people were drowned. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the British fleet is doomed unless the Mediterranean fleet is increased instead of the Canuel Squadron. The paper adds that in the Mediterranean waters the French vessels outnumber those of the British, and have twice the guns and thrice the practice, besides which more of the nhores are lined with torpedoes. The death is announced of Professor Henry Morley, LL.D., at the age of 74 years. The Earl of Lindsay, one of the representative Peers for Scotland, is dead. Seven thousand London cabmen strike to-morrow unless the owners reduce the hiring charge to 3s per day. Four thousand of the cabmen have declined to join in the strike. The National Liberal Federation has convened a conference, to meet in Leeds ou the 20th of the next month, to consider the attitude adopted by the House of Lords regarding Liberal measures. Lisbon, May 15. The rcc« >i action of President Pnx->ti>, of Brazil, has led to a ruptura of fnendi\ relations with the Portuguese Govern ment. Capet wn, May 15. The Government has decided to send Sir J. H. De Villier-, Chief Justice aud Provident of the Legislative Council, and Sir G. Mills, Aeeut General lti L<nl<>n, to represent Cape Colony at the Ottawa Conference. Paris, May 15 Thtjre is an epidemic of suicide in the city and several deaths of students and children are reported, St. I'ktersbubg, May 15. Cholera islprevalent in seven provinces iv the south of Russia. Berlin, .May 15. The miners are discussing the question of a legal eight hours day.