LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 116, 30 May 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— "Copyright. (PKB FBESS ASSOCIATION!. London, May 29. The Westminster Gazette, commenting on the offer of assistance to Australia by the Cape Government, says it is a proof of the solidarity of the colonies and faith in their own and each other's future. Scarlet fever is raging to an alarming extent at Aldershot. Many of the regi* merits stationed there bare boon attacked. i The London County Council rof u.*os to join in the city's present to the Princess May, on the ground tlmt it was not first consulted, Lady Wolverton intends to present the Princess with the CombeWarren estata. The match between tho Australians and Surrey Count? opened on the Oral to-day. The County eleven were dis* posed of in the first innings for 181. Depositors and sharrholders in the Commercial Bunking Company of Sydney hare unanimously npproved of ihe reconstruction scheme. Sergt. Daly, Corpl. Nicholson, Gunner Harrison. Trooper Eiley, Corp!. Gollan, and Driver Patterson won prizes in tho Royal Military Tournament at Islington. The Dowager Duches* of Sutherland has served her term of imprisonment for contempt of court. Sergeant Looney's team, Victoria, won the prize for artillery driving, with Sergeant Shield's team, from the same colony, second. In the mounted combats the Australians made a splendid show, and they have a large number of men left in tho finals. The first exhibition of bush fighting given by the New South Wnles cavalry-men was much applauded. The Observer, referring to the expedition of Dundee whalers to the Southern Seas, says they report seals and whales to be abundant in the Antarctic, and expresses a hope that the Australian colonies will send a scientific expedition to that ocean. Washington, May 28. Mr Charles Forstcr attributes his failure to his devoting his attention to politics. Berlin, May 29. A manifesto has been placarded in. the city, which is attributed to the Govern* men', declaring that peace is uncertain, and that Franco and Bussia arc only waiting for a chance, owing to their un» dying hatred of the Germans. French invaders, according to (lie manifesto, may be expected to forget the dictates of humanity and to leave the country in ruin 9. The Triple Alliance would be unable to prevent the devastation of Germany in the face of a coalition between France and Russia. A fatal case of cholera is reported from Hamburg. Zanzibar, May 29. Reports from Uganda represent the country a<s again tm.=i;ff l.vi. Protestants arid Catholics banit in r -nil i-t. Mono Koso. M-ij 29. It is officially announced that if the United States were iuilhoriseil (o enforce the provisions ot the ('hinr.se Exclusion Act, China will retaliate by expelling all Americans anil shopping trade with the Stales. Caib>. May 29. The hostility of the native Egyptian press to the British, which so far has been unchecked, is causing some anxiety; as it is feared that tho natives will believo that the Khedive approves of the sentiments expressed. C:\lcutma, May 29. A goldfield, covering 900 square miles, is reported to have been discovered at Wnntho, in Burinah. St. Pktkhsbubo, May 29. A Nihilists' Club has been unearthed in this city.