LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 9, 11 July 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. SUICIDE OF A CRICKETER. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, July 10. Scotton, the formerly well-known Notts Erofessional, committed suicide by.cuttiug, » ; is throat. Tfie cause/of the d#i wasp family troti-bleSa ;■£' \..M _M. f ] f*' Probate has been granted of lhe will of the late Sir James Anderson, at £90,000 Broadwood, the head of the well-known piano manufacturing firm is dead. The Premier has consented to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the condition ol agriculture. £125j20» were tendered for the Napier Harbour Board loan of £200,000 nt five 'per .cent with a minimum of 08. r The Pall Mall Gazette is publishing a Beries of articles on Home Rule written by leading statesmen wbo aro opposed to the moyemeut. Mr O'Brieu in a violent letter to tho Times, accuses Mr Chamberlain of having made secret overtures to the Irish partf in 1884, with the object of ousting Mr Gladstone. W. Jones, Jarvis, and Conuingham, are playing against Yorkshire. The Australians went in first aud were all disposed of for 142. Three hundred amendments have been tabled to the clause in the Home Rule Bill dealing with the retention of Irish members in the Imperial Parliament. Pabis, July 10. Some French newspapers suggest that concessions should be made in Siam to England in order that France may be enabled to wholly claim Madagascar. The inquiry into the murder of one of the French escort, conducting a Mandarin across a river in Siam, so far as it has proceeded, shows the official was killed by the Siamese Mandarin in a fair fight. M.PeybialJ the Minister of Finance, has withdrawn his resignation. The Reneral position ofthe French from Tonquin to Siagon, the capita! of French Cochm China, is becoming critical owing to Chinese intrigues. France and Germany haye agreed to mark boundaries and fix a neutral zone. VIBNNA, July ». Forty thousand Socialists demand universal suffrage St. PsTßßsnußo. July fl. The Moscow Gazette ways Enulnnd is loswk her influence with the Ameer of Afghauis!nn, nnd Russia will neglect no chanoe of assisting the inhabitants of India to overthrow British Rule. Madrid, July 9. The roads in the province of M urcia are strewn with corpses, victims to the cholera. Rome. July 10. The Italian press generally refer in favourable terms to the Bankßill, but at the fame time express many misgivings as to its passing into law. Bkluiiadk, July 10. The Skupsliiinn, or National Assembly, is taking steps to impeach certain exministers for bringing the eoifntry on lhe, verge of civil war. Ottawa, July 10/ Thirteen thousand Cutholics in Montreal attempted to demolish tbe rotunda of the Protestant missionaries, owing to the latter sligumtUiilg them as idolators. Information, however, hnd been sent be forehand to the authorities, and a body cf police and riflemen were, Qn gUard. Many ofthe rioters were injured, and a number arrested.