LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 24 June 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(PRB PBBS9 ASSOCIATION). London, June 23. The Australians beat the Kent eleven by an innings and one run. There is great joy in India at the prospect of an early reform of the currency, and Indian four per cent, stocks have advanced to 108. Mr I. Buxton, Under Secretary to the Colonies, replying to a question in Uie House of Cotntnone with regard to taxing of the Wellington ManAyatn Railway Couipany.s debentures, said he was informed that the New Zealand Government were considering the propriety of augending the law on that point owing to the objections which had been raised by the holders of debentures in Great Britain. H.M.B. Howe which was floated after being ashore on the coast of Spain has arrived safely at Sheerness. The Daily Telegraph says the Victorian Government is negotiating for four or four and a half per cent, loan, but Sir A. Clark, acting Agent General, denies such is the case. At tbe wool auctions there is better competition, and prices are firmer. San Fbancisco, June 22. Owing to the run on the Californian banks, fix suspensions are announced. Bkblik. June 23. The Reichstag is convened for July 4. General Hume's amendment reducing the number of men under the Army Bill to seventy thousand will again be submitted. VALPARaiso, June 23. Sara Bernhardt was robbed of jewels to the value of twelve thousand pounds in Valparaiso. Nrw Yobe, June 23. During a thunderstorm a circu«, showing in Wisconsin, war struck by lightning. Eight persons were killed and 80 injured. St. Pktrbsbubu. June 22 During a panic in a church near Mos cow 136 men and women were suffocated to doath on a staircase behind a fastened door. Twenty of the congregation were trampled to death, while a number ol others were killed by jumping from tht galleries. The panic was caused bj thieves raising a cry of tire, in order t<i cover their operations.