HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. THE NEW PACIFIC MAIL ROUTE. (PEK PRRSB ASSOCIATION ) London, March 14. Betting on the University boat race is now at seven to two on Oxford. Mr Justin McCarthy has been re-el-ected Chairman of the Irish Party. H.M.S. Crescent left for Australia, but her machinery was again disabled. She has returned to Spithead. Mr Huddart has heen invited to make Queenstown and Milford Haven ports of call. Ho has replied no decision can be coinc to as to tlio final ports of arrival, though it is implied Liverpool will be the terminus. Mr Huddart relies to a large extent on the Canadian-Pacific to support his live. An expenditure of two million will be required, in his opinion, and tho |success of the venture depends upon obtaining an Imperial subsidy. He will ask the Premier for .£5 ,800 per annum. A port of depart uro will be decided on its merits, but the question of a port will not be settled till tho directors are appointed. The service will be fortnightly to begin with and eventually weekly. Bbtjssfl 8 , March 13. The Belgian Government is buying up the frontier railways, with a view to enabling rapid mobilisation
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 264, 15 March 1894, Page 2
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