YESTERDAY’S CABLE.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(Per Electric Tblegraph—Copyright. )
(Per Press Association.)
(Received 6 p.m., August 13th.) THE SOUDANESE.
London, August 12.
Colonel Colville and two other officers have started from Uganda to command the Soudanese.
THE BOMABY RIOTS.
Bombay, August 12.
The turmoil continues, and the riots are the most serious ever known here. The Artillery commands the streets, and Lancers have been ordered from Poonah. The Blue Jackets have been landed from the warship. Desultory skirmishes have taken place at night, and six people have been killed and a hundred injured. Four Hindoo temples and two mosques have been wrecked, and the Mahommaden quarters have been looted. Volunteers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to assist in maintaining order.
Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, has wired to the Viceroy that the riots will probably continue for some days, but he declares that there is no ground for alarm. CHOLERA. London, August 12. Cholera is spreading on the Continent, and a case is reported from Grimsby. In New York eight more cases are reported among Italian immigrants. SAXEOOBURG AND GOTHA. News has been received that Ernest, 2nd Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, has suffered a fit of apoplexy, and that
ia condition causes the utmost anxiety to his friends. The Duke is 75 years of age. The heir presumptive is the Duke of Edinburgh. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.
The Duke of Connaught succeeds Sir H. Evelyn Wood as Commander of the Aldershot District.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
The Earl of Kintore does not retire from the Governorship of South Australia until the term of six years, for which he was appointed, expires.
A FREE PORT. Berlin, August 12. The Emperor has decided to make Dantzig a free port.
POLITICAL MURDERS. Belgrade, August 12.
The advent of the Radical party to power has led to a great increase of crime in the country. Twenty-nine murders, attributed to political motives, have been recorded in four months.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7286, 14 August 1893, Page 1
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