YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7268, 22 July 1893, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Special to Press Association.)

(Received 11.15 a.m., July 21st.)

ACCIDENT TO MR GLADSTONE. London, July 20.

A carriage in which Mr Gladstone was driving in Parliament Square collided with a van, but the Premier suffered no injury. He was warmly congratulated by members on his narrow escape. THE BISLEY MEETING. In the Rifle Association meeting at Bialey, Lieutenant Kennedy, of Napier, New Zealand, scored 83 in the first stage of the aggregate for the Queen s Prize, and will probably be included in the first three hundred who are qualified to fire in the final stage for the trophy.

AN IMPORTANT EXPEDITION. St. Petersburg, J uly 20. Several leading Russians have equipped an expedition, to be under the command of Colonel Yanoff, for an eight months’ stay in Pamir, with the intention of permanently possessing the country. The expedition will have instructions to establish military stations on the road to India commanding the Baroghie Pass. The advance will be further than that made in 3891. Military stations are to be established at Harbad and Wakham. SHOCKING RESULTS PROM YELLOW FEVER. Rio db Janeiro, July 21. During the month of June the death rate from yellow fever at Santos was 200 per day. A large number of the bodies were never buried, and corpses were to be seen floating in the river. Forty-five sailing vessels were lying idle, the captains of nearly half of them having sue cumbed to the epidemic.