HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 295, 23 April 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

ILLNESS OF JABEZ BALFOUR. j CLOSING OF LIQUOR SHOPS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. NAVAL COOL STORES. MOTION TO ABOLISH ANNUITY TO DUKE OF COBURG. THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF SAMOA. (FEB PIEBB ASSOCIATION) Be knob Atbks, April 21. Owing to the ill-health of Jabez Balfour (he authorities have sanctioned his removal from gaol to n private house. Washington, April 21 All the State Liquor Dispensaries in South Carolina have been closed on the grounds that they are illegal. London, April 21. Mr J. C. Williamson has engaged Edwards' London Company to open in Australia nest Easter with " In Town " and " The Gaiety Girl." Obituary— Lord Ernby. Mr Reid, Victorian Minister of Defence, has formally requested the Marquis ot Ripon (o recommend the establishment of cool ntores at; Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Colombo. In the House of Commons, Captain C. W. Norton, M.P. for West Newington, moved, and Mr Labouchere seconded, a motion to abolish the annuity to the Duke of Coburg. The Radicals supported the motion, which was rejected by a majority of 230 votes The HuddartParker's steamer Mio- , wera, which ran ashore at Honolulu, has arrived in London. The Pall Mall Gazette refers in favor able terms to the decision of the New Zealand Government for the annexation of Samoa Sir J. Lubbock's amendment to the proposed Gerand Scotch Committee was ruled out of order. The Government in tend to limit the proposal only to small measures excepting the Local Govern, ment Bill. Athens, April 22. Earthquakes have occurred in various parts of Greece, resulting in serious loss of life. Mnny villages have been completely destroyed. Numbers of the villagers are camping in the fields, and a warship has been despatched to Atlantia to relieve this distress.