LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 8, 10 July 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Eleciric Telegraph.— Copyright. THE GERMAN ARMY BILL. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. AUSTRALIAN BANKS. FATAL YACHT ACCIDENT. 30 LIVES LOST. (FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION). Lonoon, July 9. Tbe creditors intend to appeal against Judge Williams' approval of the scheme of reconstruction of tha English Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank. James Tims, member of the London County Council, and Secretary of the Radical Federation League, was sentenced to three months imprisonment ' for defrauding a railway company of the value of a ticket. The Corporation of the City gave a banquet to the Czarewich, and Prince and Princess Christian The former said he hoped the great unity which existed between the Royal families of England and Russia would extend to the people of the two countries. Mr Fulton, a farmer of Napier, summoned Mr Jas, Alexander to the Guildhall for alleged misappropriation of 62 bales of wool with intent to defraud. Tlie case is adjourned, but the Court expressed an opinion that the evidence so far adduced was weak. Sir Bache Cunard has been seriously injured in a conflict with poachers. Tbe Don Juan has been burnt off Manila. Most of those on board jumped overboard, and it is estimated that fully 145 Chinese were drowned. Berlin, July 8. Chancellor Caprivi haa re-introduced the Army Bill in the Reichstag with certain amendments. Tbe measure now submitted reduces the original demand regarding men and money by one sixth, and provides for two years' service. Count Caprivi said it would compel the wealthy to bear the bnrden of military taxation by the exemption of the farmers, and increasing the Bourse tax. The Army Bill was read a first time in the Reichstag. Paris, July 8. The riots are fizzling out altogether. Two hundred arrests were made yesterday. A yacht capsized in a violent storm off Skogness, a ffenside resort in Lincolnshire. Thirty excursionists were drowned, Brussels, July 8. Information has been received from the Congo that Captains Chiltin and Jacques, in the Belgian service, have defeated Arab slavers with great slaughter, and driven them back from Stanley Falls to Lake Tanganyika.