HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 239, 14 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE BRITISH NAVY. EXECUTION OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER. A PROTECTION POLICY IN FRANCE. CHAMPION BILLIARD MATCH. AGITATION AGAINST THE HOUSE OF LORDS. THE FINANCES OF NEW ZEALAND. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 13. Princess Ina, daughter of Princess Beatrice, has regained conscinusness, and is slowly recovering from the effects of her accident, by which she was thrown on her head while riding af Onborne. The Daily News states that it is be lieved that the Government will accept Lord Dudley's amendment to the Employers' Liability Bill, limiting the contract ing cut system to existing societies for three years. Roberts, the billiard champion, allows Memmott, of Melbourne, half points in ft spot-barred gome of 20,000. Sir Harry Vernoy is dead. The correspondent of the Standard at Constantinople, says that the Turks are trying to goad the Armenians into rebellion. The Admiralty has decided to draft 50 junior officers and 900 men out of the reserve into the Navy in order to supply the deficiency. The Liberal Federation has issued a manifesto stating that tho House of Lords cannot be permitted to ruin Government Bills, and calling for serious action on the part of Ministers. Mr John Burns, M.P., asserts that the attitude of the House of Lords is imperilling the safety of the Throne. He declares that a people who sent Charles I. to sleep without his head will not permit their measures to be vetoed by Lord Salisbury. Mr Wilson, of the Investors' Review, writing in the Chronicle alleges that Nflw Zealand surpluses only exist on paper. He contends that in three years the Colony hos slyly increased its debt by a rtiillion and a half. Sir W. B Perceval replying to the attack of the Financial News on the New Zealand surpluses, states that tbe increased debt of the t olony is owing to conversion operations which will result in a saving of £30,000 annually. Pabis, February 12. The death is announced of M. Maxime Dv Camp, one of the founders of the Revue de Paris. The Rheims Chamber of Commerce informs M. Melinc that the woollen industry has been greatly injured by Protection, and that many of the factories are ruined and will have to be sold. Washington, February 13. President Cleveland declines to forcibly overthrow the provisional Government in in Hawaii St. Pktebsbcbg. February 13. A Russian officer was hanged at Odessa for divulging army secrets to a Foreign Power. Calcutta. February 13. The Indian merchants are urging that the minimum rate for tho sale of Council Bills should be reSxed and the disposal thereof entrusted to special agents. The Finauce Minister of India is prohibiting the private importation of silver. Constantinople February 13. Several deaths from cholera are reported here. Caiho. February 13. At the instance of Colonel Kitchener, the Knedivc has promoted several English officers. Ottawa. February 12 The Upper House of Nova Scotia has sent a petition to the Queen, asking that Her Majesty will not grant the request of the House of Assembly for the abolition of the Council. Rome, February 12 Italy is negotiating for a commercial treaty with France.