Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 2, 5 July 1892, Page 2

Cable Brevities

Prince Bismarck is now using moderation in his addresses. In the Reichstag tbe Opposition declare they bear no enmity against Count Von Capfifi* Chancellor of the Exchequer. .... The trial of those accused of baring taken part in the murder of M. Beltcheff last year continues. The accused hif c made some remarkable admissions' which implicate the Russian Consul in Boufgas, and admit that the; attempted to shoot Prince Ferdinand m 1890. French missionaries declare that Uganda natives of the Protestant persuasion have again attacked the Catholic natives, and allege that they were assisted by Captains Lugard and Williams. Tho National Bank of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 2k 6d per share for the year, and carry forward , a sum of £6800. Messrs Fullerton, Hardy, Talbot. Yonng.and Ho war tb, all New Zealauders, passed the final medicai examination ia Edinburgh. Lord Ranaolph Churchill has been returned unopposed. Sir James Whitehead, who was Lord Mayor in 1888, and who stood in the Home Rule interest, has been elected successor to Mr Alexander McArthur, M.P. for Leicester. Mr Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, lunched with the Queen and subsequently had a short interview with Her, Majesty io the presence of Lord Knotsford. Secretary of State for the Colonies. In (he match against Oxford Univers* ity, Cambridge scored 160 runs in the first innings, ana having to follow, made 31,4 for the loss ot firo wickets. At the Athletic Championship Meets ing to day oa the London Athletic Club's (-round at Stamford Bridge, the New Zealand team failed entirely in the championships. Peter Wood won his heat in the Quarter on the flat, as did Batger in the Hurdles, but both were easily beaten in the final. The inter-university boat race, Yale r. Harvard, the former won by six lengths.