HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 261, 12 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MORE ANARCHIST OUTRAGES. THE PANAMA CANAL. THE SITUATION in SOUTH AFRICA ENGLAND AND THE AFFICAN SLAVE TRADE. SERIOUS ACCUSATTON AGAINST LORD OXENIiRIDGK. THE SILVER QUESTION. PONDOLAND TO BE ANNEXED. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. (rER TRESS ASSOCIATION ) Rome. March 11. One of the men in custody is severely injured, and he is believed to be the author of the outrage. Madrid, March 11 A bomb exploded iv a church at Segovia, killing a major in the army and the sexton of the church. Pa i;is. March 11. The shareholders in the Panama Canal Company are forming a new company to complete the canal. The Government opposed a motion of urgency to discuss the liquor duties, and on a division being taken were defeated by a majority of sixty-eight votes. Washington, M*rch 11. The Provisional Government in Hawaii has enacted stringent laws against ininaigrants. President Cleveland declares that he will veto the seigniorage coinage proposals if the Senate pass them. London. March 10. Advices from the West Coast of Africa state that a British column, operating against the Arab slave dealer Fodislah, has captured and burned the village of Gungur. The Times congratulates fie colonies on the distinct advance vi ide by the Postal Conference towards the Pacific cable. The Times urges Lord Rosebery to dismiss Viscount Oxeuhridge, Master of the Horse, on the ground that nis name is mixed up in scandals in connection with the Liberator Permanent Building Society frunds. The repairs to the engines of H.M.S Crescent will be completed on Tuesday, when she will resume her A r o3'agc to Australia, The Colonial Office regards Lord Hopctouns case as analagous to that of the Earl of Kintoro, and will grant His Excellency leave of ab.'-ence if he desires to visit England. The Oxford crew are still favourites for ttje University boat race, and betting is now f* to 2 on. It is officially announced that Sir F. C. Lascelles, British Envoy at Teheran, succeeds Sir R. Moricr ns British Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Capktown, March 10. President Krnger, of the Transvaal Republic, has issued a manifesto, in which he urges the Burghers not to forsake the Transvaal for Matabelclaud. The manifesto declares that Mr Cecil Rhodes, the Premier of Cape Colony, is trying to surround the Transvaal, and is destroying the autonomy of the country. The Cape Government has instructed Major Elliot, who is in command of the militory expedition iv Pondoland, to annex the country.