TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATEST EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4739, 2 September 1893, Page 5

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATEST EDITION.

£BF tSLECXKW TELEQttAPB—COP • I£iGM'lY] [Special to Passs Association.] LONDON, Sept. 1. The New Hebrides. Sir E. Grey explained that the New Hebrides convention does not fix the date for its termination. The Home Rule Bill. Mr. Aequith, Home Secretary, speaking"'at Althorpe, said that Mr Chamberlain had been of great help to the Government in getting the Home Rule Bill through, as his speeches always rallied waverers to the Government side. The Daily News estimates that four hundred Peers will vote against the Bill and forty for it. Welsh Disestablishment. The Welsh members of the House of Commons have resolved to secede from the Liberal Party unless the Disestablishment Bill be passed next year. The Earl of KintoreIt is rumoured that the Earl of Kintore will receive a Marquisate i£ he consents to retain the Governorship of South Australia. The Siamese Question. The Times correspondent wires that M. de Villers, the French envoy, to Siani, has abandoned his violent attitude, and is now conducting negotiations quietly on the basis of the original ultimatum. The British gunboat Swift has been sent to Bangkok. Cholera. Great precautions are being taken against cholera at Grimsby. All traffic, both inward and outward, has been prohibited. ST PETERSBURG, Sept. 1. Twelve hundred deaths from cholera in Russia were recorded daring the week. It now extends over the whole country. • WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Shocking Bailway Accident —Twenty Deaths. Another shocking railway accident t&&Gpxs&l*, A& 6W ess. train ;iron]

Boston to Albany fell through a bridge over the Westfeld river. Twenty persons were killed and many others injured. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Alleged Embezzlement— £10.000 Missing, Drew, a member of tho well-known mercantile firm of Macready, Drew and Co., of Melbourne, has been arrested on a charge of being concerned in the embezzlement of .£IO,OOO. The firm were agents for a Paris firm, who sent out an agent to investigate the accounts, with the result that .£IO,OOO were unaccounted for. Macready is believed to be in London, and Bruce, another partner, has gone to Natal. The New South Wales Kevenue. The decrease of .£60,000 in the revenue is for August, a3 compared with last year, not for the qiiarfcer. BRISBANE, Sept. 2. Queensland Revenue— Another Decrease. The revenue for August shows a decrease of £49,000 as compared with the same month last year.