LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKE PBEBS ASSOCIATION). London, June 7. A cargo of Australian wheat was sold at 295. Orders for compulsory winding up was granted against the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Standard National Bank of Australasia, Australian Joint Stock Bank, and City of Melbourne Bank. The official receiver will, however, take no stops without the sanction of the Court. The petition, for winding up the Queensland National was ad iourned till July 8. pending the discussion of a reconstruction scheme. Pams, June 7. Fighting iv Dahomey has been renewed. It is reported the French troops were obheed to retire after six hours' engagement. Figaro, after making special enquiry as to the position of affairs in Kgypt, admits the benefits conferred by British administration from every point of new. Their special commission adds, " The cry of Egypt for the Egyptians is Utopian. The British hare exorcised neither tyranny nor oppression. M. Goblet contondod that the retention of Alsaco by Germany was the mam cause of tho insensate armament of the European nations. France did not desire to provoke war, but wa9 determined to be ready for it. Washington, June 7. There is much finnncial uneasiness in the United States. There lias been a run on eleven banks in Chicago, the i-ffect being to draw supplies oF gold westward. Grant's locomotive works hnre failed. Nf.w York, June 6. Sis armed men seized a bank in Den tcnvillc, Kansas, and compelled the c-ish-icr to take 20,000dn|s. in gold to a buggy they had in real mess outside the building. Tlie cashier took refuge in a news paper office, which wns fired into by the robbers, who afterwards decamped. Two were killed in attempting to regain the money. The death of Edwin Booth, the actor, is announced. He wa-- 60 years of ago.