HOME & FOREIGN" CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 325, 29 May 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN " CABLES.

TBE DUKE OF YORK TO VISIT THE COLONIES. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. MORE BIRTHDAY HONORS. ATLANTIC CABLE A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. (PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION ) London. May 27. It is reported tbat the Duke of York has given a tentative promise to visit Australia in 1895. Lasker won tbe chess championship, beating Steintiz by ten out of nineteen games, four games being drawn. Mr John Austin, M.P. for Osgoldcross, Yorkshire, hss been raised to a baronetcy. Sir Arthur Hay ter, M.P for Walsall, and Mr Jacob Bright, M P for Mancbester S.W., bave been appointed members of the Privy Council. Major Corbett, for hia services in Gambia, has been created a companion of tbe Order of tbe Bath The Engineers, with the view of obtain* ing greater speed and reduced resistance, have increased the weight of the new Atlantic cable from four hundred to six hundred pounds per mile. It is sng gested that tbis would be suitable for tbe Pacific cable. O'Donovan Rossa has returned to Ireland. Mr Virgoes, secretary to tbe Young Men's Christian Association in Adelaide, is asking tbe Young Men's Christian Association of England to appoint for two years a travelling secretary in Australia with ibe view of establishing extensive organisations in tbe colony. Cairo, May 28. i It is stated that Nubar Pasha's tact has led to the removal of tbe nuti-Britieb prejudice in Egypt. Pabis, May 27. M. Poincare, formerly Education Minister, considers the first duty of the now Government will be to dispel tbe British delusion that France is willing to submit to her best founded rights in Congo being ignored.