LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 20, 24 July 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraphs — Copyright. (PEE PBEBS ASSOOATION.) London, July 22. Lieutenant Kennedy, of Napier, scored 185 points in the second stage for the Queen's prize at the National Jtifle As. socintions Meeting at Bisley. Nothing under 189 can compete in the final stage. July 23. Sergt. Davies of the First Welsh Volunteers won the Queen's prize at Bisley. In the county match Kent beat Surrey by 22 runs after an exciting game. Shnrlaw, a London bicilyist, rode 426 miles in 24 hours establishing a record. The Australians defeated Somersetshire by six wickets. A. correspondent at Bankok wires that the reply of the Siamese Government to the French ultimatum concedes the territory on the left bank of the Menkong, including Stungsheng and Khong. The Siamese also agree to deposit three million francs (£120,000) and guarantee indemnities for the alleged massacre. It is hoped that this offer will form a basis of settlement. i The Economist, referring to the Victorian Budget, approves of the policy of economy shadowed there ; but regrets that the Government found it necessary to increase the Customs duties. A case of cholera, imported from Marseilles, is reported at Gravesend. The Daily Chronicle considers that the Victorian Income Tax is solving the problem ot government by democratic methods. The Daily News, discussing the decision in the case of Makin, of Sydney, the infant murderer, considers the Privy County rightly refused to entertain the appeal. A Yellow Book, issued by the French Government, shows a number of arrogant despatches from the French Government to England, respecting Lord Cromer's treatment of Abbas Pasha in Egypt, and of the alarm experienced in France at the increase of the British army in Cairo. The despatches show Mr Gladstone's attitude to have been firm throughout. The Standard's correspondent says Russia haa doubled her forces on the Austrian frontier, and they are now on the war footing. The Tablet states that Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, is seriously ill at Dublin, and that acting on the advice of his medical attendants, he will shortly leave there to seek a warmer climate. In the House of Commons yesterday, Sir E. Grey, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary to the Foreign Office, refused to explain the terms of the Russian demands respecting the Pamirs. He explained that negotiations were still proceeding ; and that, in a dispatch, the Czar has assured the Imperial Government that the report of the advance of a Russian expedition was without foundation. St. Petersburg,. April 20. Several leading Russians haye equipped an expedition, to be under the command of Colonel Yanoff, for an eight months' stay in the Pamirs, with the intention of permanently possessing the country. Cholera is prevalent in this city. . Rio de Janeiro, July 22. The rebels have badly defeated the Government troops, and have killed General Hoares. Lisbon, July 22. The King of Portugal, while intervening in a drunken street brawl, was violently assaulted : but he captured his assailant, and handed him over to the police, Nkw Yobk, July 22. Thirty thousand smelters and silver miners are idle in Colorado. The Commercial Bank in Milwaukee has suspended, with liabilities amounting to 1,109,000 dollars.