LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 114, 16 March 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, March 14. City men express a feeling of gratification at tue agreement between the As3o* cinted Banks in Australia for mutual help, which they think will restore con., fidence in the colonial financial in-*titu- i tions if fully observed. The Pall Mall Gazette, however, says that tlto agreement is not to be trusted, seeing that the Federal Bank was not helped. The betting on the University boat race is 5 to 2 on the Oxford crew. Wells, the Monte Carlo gambler, has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced i to eight years' penal servitude. March 15. Gladstone and Salisbury ara both improving. Paris, March 15. M. Bourgeois has consented to resume the portfolio of Justice. It is now believed that Madams Co tu's enlence is part of a plot. t> orertirox the Gorernment. Violent scenes liave taken place in the Chamber of Deputies. Deroule called the Government a pack of liars. Washington, March 14, Presidont Clovelaud considers it useless te ask Congress to ropaal the silver Purchase Act until tho pressure- of hud times has aroused public opinion. Owing to the difficulty in selliug gold bonds in London, the Presideut bus withdrawn tho proposed sale. Calcutta, March 14. The Ameer of Afghanistan has declined to meet tho Viceroy of India at a conference, although he says ha regards England as his best fnond, and will bo willing to co-oporate in maintaining tho integrity of her north-western frontier. The hill tribesmen attacked Port Chilas, near Gilgit, but were repulsed with a loss of 200. Ouo British officer and 20 Sepoys were killed, and 30 wounded.