Special Cables.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 327, 31 May 1894, Page 2

Special Cables.

AN ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL. DISASTROUS FLOODS. 600 CHINAMEN DROWNED. 200 LIVES LOST IN INDIA. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, May 29. Sir Edwin Watkin, <jwing to illhealth, has dcii led to entirely retire from the active management of a number of railway companies with which he is connected. Mr Richard Tangye, of Binning ham, head of the well known firm of Tangye's, Limited (uot Mr Mangett as cabled on Sunday night), ban been knighted. Sir Edward Grey, Political Secretary for the Foreign Office, replying to a question in the House of Com mons, stated that both Germany and Italy recognised the British sphere iv tho Congo distiict. He declared that the Anglo- Belgian treaty does not af feet French interests in Africa. Fox, an Australasian artist, haft re ceiived a third class medal for pictures exhibited at the Paris Salon. An application has been preferred by Countsss Russell for the restoration of conjugal rights. The defence is that she is not entitled to the applica tion, haying been guilty of cruelty, owing to charges she preferred against the Earl of being guilty of disgraceful offences. The case has been postponed for the present, His Honor advisiug that counsel for the defence should abandon a technical plea, as he would prefer to decide the case on its merit?. In the House of Commons tr.day, Sir E. Grey stated that the United States had not officially intimated its desire to retire from participation in tho administration of Samonn affairs. Belgrade, May 29. Ex King Milan has decided to leave Servia in August. Ottawa, May 29. The Conference opens on the 28th June. The Earl of Jersey will represent Groat Britiin Hong Koxg, May 29. Flcods, rosuHntf from the overflow of tbe river Yang tsj-Kiang, hate caused t'io deaths of 600 people by drowning. Calcutta. M«t 29. A landslip in Kulu, in the Punjaub damtnoJ a river, and the litter burst* in^ >ts banks, the surrounding villages were flooded, with, the result that two hundred persons wero drowned.