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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 12 October 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

(BKITTBB'B TEIKGBAMB.) Received October 12, 1.40 p.m. London. October 11.. The final heat of the Welsh Harp Sculling Handicap wa« won by Bubear who takes first prize. " Captain Moonlieht" and two accomplices have been arrested at Boberbue, county Cork, Ireland. Rangoon, October 9. News has been received that a force of 3,000 Shahs have burned and looted the town of Kwetnapa. Sttong reinforce* ments were dispatqhed from Mandalay, and succeeded in driving the ..rebel* to the. hills. Vienna, October 9. An Anarchist plot to set fire to timber yards and public buildings of this city has been frustrated by the authorities. A. quantity of dynamite has been seized. London, October 9. The first heat of the Welsh Harp Handicap was rowed on the Thames today, when Wallace Boss and Perkins beat Nelson, who is consequently out of the final heat. The Imperial Institute will be opened next year on the site of the present Colonial and Indian Exhibition, until permanent buildings shall have been erected. New South Wales stocks hare receded three-fourths, and those of the other colonies were depressed but have now recovered. The Times, in an article oh the position of New South Wale*, spates that the gloomy views of Sir Patrick Jennings are intensified in the city, po* tiibly owing to the recent rejection of financial measures of. Parliament The Standard referring to the same subject, (tonsiders the fi gures mentioned in tinTreasurer's statements are incredible The I'aily News to>day .publishes, an article in which it states that the Got: eminent are preparing an Irish scheme on the basis of providing a national coun oil for each of the four provinces ."of Ulster, Leinster, Monster, and Con naught. x It has transpired that efforts hare been made by the French and Russian Governments to compel Great Britain to evacuate Egypt. Germany, it is stated, has been invited to co-operate in the demand for the evacuation, but declined. ,