HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 343, 19 June 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MR GLADSTONE TO VISIT THE STATES. AMERICAN WOOL DUTIES. FAILURE OF WHEAT CROP. THE LATE LORD COLERIDGE. RAID ON NIHILISTS. FATAL ATTEMPT TO RESCUE ENTOMBED MINERS. (Per Press Association.) Washington June* 18. The stockyards in Jersey city have been destroyed by fire. Five thousand sheep, which were confined in the yards, were burnt to death. The damage is estimated at .£400,000. The new >ch-dule of rates of duty on woollen gooda comes iuto open lion m January. Obituary — Hon. Wm. M. Phelps, L.L.D., who until last year was Ambassador for United States in Germany, aged 45. Committees are being formed to send a general invitation to Mr Gladstone to visit the United States. Londojj. June 18, The Stock Conversion Trust is promoting a scheme to convert deposit receipts of reconstructed Banks into marketable stocks by means of a Trust Company. The Times doubts the success of Sir G. Dibbs' federation scheme, which it regards as an electoral cry. A match has been arranged to be sailed at Cowes on July 24th, between the Prince of Wales' yacht Britannia and the crack American yacht Vigilant, which won the American Cup in October last. Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, says the late Lord Coleridge possessed consummate genius, and that his crossexamination of the Tichborae Claimant before the Court was the most masterly of the present generation. Lord Carrington, in a letter in the Standard, points out that the Budget imposes probate duty on colonial stocks, which hitherto have been exempt. Buda I'isth, June 18 Owing to the wet and cold, it is expected that the Hungarian wheat yield will be twenty per cent, below the average. St. I'ktebsburg. Jane 17. The police raided a Nihilist printing office in Warsaw, shooting three of the workmen and arresting seven. Heblin, June 17. Fifty men were killed in attempting the release of the miners entombed in the burning mine in Silesia. Capetown, June 17. Another interesting discovery is reported from Dhlodhlo, in south-cast Matabelcland, where ruins similar to those found at Zirnbabye have been unearthed. The find includes gold, silver, and copper utensils and ornaments, and also nuggets of solid gold.