HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 266, 17 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

ENGLAND AND MATABELELAND. PENNY POSTAGE TO THE COL- •— ~ , ~^NJESL-*-*~ - ->^-s, MAD FREAKS OF THE BELGIUM KING. THE BRAZILIAN REBELS. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT A FUNERAL. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London. March 16. It Las been decided tbat the British Government will administer affairs in Matabeleland aud Mashonaland by means of a Judge and Council, four of the members of the latter body to be nominated by the British South Africa Company, subject to the acquiescence of Lord Ripon. In a letter to Major E. R. Jones member for Caerinarthen, Mr Gladstone states that the physical struggles he has undergone are best known to himself. His resignation had become inevitable. Mr Gladstone will not seek re-election for Midlothian constituency at the next election. Judgment will be given, upon the application of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, to rescind the order for examination on Monday. Mr Huddart has arranged for an Atlantic service upon the invitation of the Canadian Government, w_o were satisfied with the success of the Pacific experiment. Tho Atlantic steamer will be nine thousand tons. Mr Huddart, at the request of Canada, will attend the Ottawa conference. A serious accident happened yesterday at Godalming, in Surrej*. Five hundred pupils of the Charterhouse School were assembled for the purpose of being photographed, when the platform on which they were arranged, suddenly collapsed. Thirty persons were injured. It is reported from Sardinia taat an Englishman and his sister were attacked by brigands, their horses being shot under them, but that eventually they succeeded in making their escape. The Times says that Sir W. V. Harcourt has assured the Irish members that an appeal will be made to the country on the Homo Rule question probably in July — after the Registration Bill and the Budget proposals have been passed. Lord Ivimberley, while returning from Westminster Hall to-day, narrowly escaped receiving serious injury from a falling stone. The Postmaster-General has informed the Chamber of Commerce that he is willing to establish penny postage if the colonies will co-operate and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is in possession of a surplus this year. " The Chamber carried a motion in favor of the reduction to a penny. Mr H. H. A&quith, Homo Secretary, has awarded i,"_oo to the relatives of the miners shot down by the military during the Featherstone riots. Brussels, Mnrch 10. Some uneasiness has been caused by the disappearance of the King of Belgium. These freaks, however, are not unusuiil of late. Rome. March 16 Five persons were killed and thirtysix injured yesterday by the collapse oi a cemetery wall while they were watching at a funeral procession. Rio de Janiero, March 15. Admiral de Mello has not surrendered. The Fiesideut has liberated 500 of the insurgent prisoners.