HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. THE CASE OE JABEZ BALFOUR. THE EVICTED TENANTS' BILL. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. (per press association.} Washington, July 30. By a foresib fire in Wisconsin, property to the estimated value of £250,000 has been destroyed, and spread ruin among the farming community. The fatalities in connection with it number sixteen. London, July 30. Gilbert Casey, one of the new Australians, who has returned to London from Paraguay, asserts that the colonists are satisfied with their position, and are gradually developing their holdings. He denies that there is any distress among them. The Sultan of Morocco has refused aa offer of the British Government to buy Tangier. The Pall Mall Gazette says that Great Britain has arranged with the Argentine Republic to expel Jabcz Balfour from | the country, with a view to compel him I to return to England. In reply to a question in the House of Commons the Secretary to the Admir* alty stated he was not aware that crews of H.M. ships Curacoa, Lizard and Rapid were aggrieved at their detention on the Australian Station. Sir Ughtred Kay Shmtleworth, Secretary to the Admiraltji replying to Mr K. T Gourley in the House of Commons, denied the statement of an annofmous writer that H.M.S curacoa on the Australian Station was unsoaworthy. Berlin. Julj 30. It was the Austrian Archduke William who was killed at Berlin, not the Grand Duke of Ba.den, as was cabled yesterday. His horse shied at an electric tram and threw him, the result being a fracture of the skull.