TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4675, 20 June 1893, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

[ry ki.ECTBIO TBLBQHAPB-COPtRIBUT.'i [Special to Press Association.] HOME, June 19. A Fatal Collision, The P. and 0. steamer Sutlej ran _to and sank a yacht at Malta, two )fficers of the Royal Engineers being irowned. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 19. Sentenced to Death. Seventeen Armenians, including wo Professors of Marsovan College, iave been sentenced to death for . •ioting at Angora. . In addition to those condemned to leath twenty-four others have been tentenced to penal servitude. WASHINGTON, June 19. Abdication of the Queen of ' Hawaii. . , The Queen of Hawaii officially ( Jtates that she will abdicate the ; throne, and accept a pension from ' bhe American Government. The Sherman Silver Law. A canvaa of the Senate shows that 39 members are in favour of repealing the Sherman Silver Law and 20 igainst. In the Lower House the numbers are 151 to 27. Typhoid Fever. There are four hundred cases o£ typhoid fever in Michigan, and the announcement of sixty deaths in a tveek has caused a panic. The outbreak is attributed to bad water. The Siamese Question. The United States Government aas refused to arbitrate between the Preach and the Siamese. CALCUTTA, June 19. Burmah. The Chin Hills district in Burmah Is to be placed under the administration of the Indian Government. CAIRO, June 19. Egypt. The Khedive is abolishing forced labour on the Nile. PAEIS, June 19. French Politics, The Compte de Houssonville, leader of the Monarchy Party in the Prench Chamber, says that the Royalists are forming a league of honest men to oppose the election of the men who defended and supported the Panama swindle. Additions to the French Navy. Additional warships are proposed in the French Estimates. They include three line-of-battle ships of eleven thousand tons and nineteen torpedo boats. LONDON, Junk 19. Frozen Meat. wiThe Daily Telegrapli, in connection th the present attempt to introduce the frozen meat trade upon the Continent, points out that if Paris in 1870 had been provided with refrigerating stores, she could have held out against the Germans for five years, and that Metz need not have capitulated for a year at least. Sir Matthew Davies. The Standard's Colombo correspondent says that Sir Matthew Davies is anxious to answer the charges against him. The German Elections. The Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says that the ejections foreshadow that the Government follow- j ing will be few under the aggregate Opposition. | An Invitation Declined. I Lord Mayor Knill has declined an invitation to visit Chicago in state. I The Effect of the Drought. ! Owing to the drought hay 19 at £7 per ton, supplies being obtained from Russia. j MELBOURNE, June 19. [ The Bank Prosecutions. The Grand Jury, in the case against Davies and Milledge began their investigations to-day. A Rich Find. rich find of go has been in the NewCloth claim at Woo Point on the Goul-

burn Biver. One man obtained 20os of lumpy gold, free from quarts, in two hours. ADELAIDE, June 19. The Australian Floods. It is expected that the recent floods will cost the Government .£30,000 to repair roads and bridges. BRISBANE, June 19. Victualling the Squadron. The Graziert/ Butohering Company has secured tho contract for supplying tbe Australian Squadron with tinned meats. SYDNEY, June 20. An Address Refused. The Governor has declined to receive an address from tbe Australian Socialists' League unless certain statements describing the Government as an executive machine in the bands of monopolists, and existing only to advance their objects, are omitted. Certificate Suspended, The certificate of the captain of the collier Lamar, which ran -into a ferry steamer, has been suspended for a month.