LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

A RELIC pS6m By Electric; Telegrciph.— Copyright. PUB PBE3S ASSOCIATION \. London, March 30. Jabez S. Balfonr, who was brought back from Mexico pn a charge of fraud in connection with his bankruptcy, has succeeded in levanting again, and is now at Monte Vidro He is believed to have taken at least £15,000 in bank notes with him. At a special meeting of the Tnbernacle congregation the Kov James Sturgeon's resignation was accepted as from the end of June. They luv.ted the Her Thomas Spurgeon to preach for »ho year from 30th July, with a view to his taking the permanent pastorate. The will of the late Sir Andrew Walker, brewer, has been pro Fed at nearly L3,OUO,UOr>. Bank of New Zealand shares are at L 5 15s. The New Zealand Colonising Company is being formed to work estates to the value of L3,00r>,000. Mr Shaw, in a leUer to the press, defends t!ie credit of Victoria. H.M.S. Howe, which was wrecked on the Spanish coast, has at length been floated off, and is now anchored in the harbour if Ferrol. March 31. In a despatch respecting Egyptian affairs. Lord Eoseberry, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, states tho withdrawal of tho troops is impossible, as it would endanger tho security of tho Europeans, and entail a relapse of former confusion. Morley, Secretary for Ireland, is inak iv» preparations for quartering live bun died troops in Dungauuon, (Couuty of Tyrone), 11 miles N.VV. of Armagh. The men will take up their quarters there in May. It is reported that Abington Baird has bequeathed ever} thing to his mother. Tho revenue collected m the United Kingdom during the financial year just ended was £97,609,000. The House of Commons has adjourned until Thursday uext. Tho premises of Jadd and Co., printers and stationers, was gutted by fire. Eighty fire engines wore engaged iv the work of extinguishing tho -flames. Mr A. G. H. Gibbs (of Antony Gibbs and Sons) says the 13: ink of Australasia had enough cash to pay deposits at call — a statement which has given -jreat satisfaction in financial circles in the city. Paris. March 31. Mr D. Velle, Minister for Agriculture, has apologised to the German Government for the treatment received from a luob by a reporter of the Borliuer Tageblatt. New York, March 31. A sensational item has reached here from the Port an Prince, capital of Hayti, stating that President Ilippolyte, who has been erratic tor some time, had raided the French Bank nnd taken 62,000 dollars. It is said that he endeavoured to escape from the Island, but was captured by a French cruiser, and the booty restored. Beklix, Murch 31. Dowe's cloth cuirass proved able to resist bullets at a hundred metres, fired from rifles of every calibre, except a French weapon — the Lebel — which was not triea. Reidel, another German, claims to have invented an even better and lighter uniform. The Czarewitch, who recently visited Germany, warmly condemned the idea of rupture between Russia and Germany. The Norddeut»hc Zfitung views with rejjret and apprehension the effects of French statesmen to obtain the applause of the mob by unjust and hostile acts towards Germans. Washington, March 30. A bottle washed ashore on the Virginian coast contained a message that the steamer Naronic struck an iceberg on February 19, and was in a sinking condition. A boat's crew had then been lost. Chicago capitalists are organising a corner in wheat. Eleven million bushels have been already secured. Twelve pounds of dynamite were discovered aboard a collier trading from San Francisco, the explosive being connected with a self-acting machine, designed to detonate it. The owners recently had a dispute with the Sailors' Union.