HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

DEATH OF A \ALUABLE RACEHORSE. AMERICAN TARIFF BILL. HOME POLITICS. THE MAXIM FLYING MACHINE. JABEZ BALFOUR. THE ACCIDENT to the MIOWERA. ARCTIC EXPLORATION. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, i London. August 3. The Duke of Westminster's crack colt, Bullingdon, injured fiimself in tho stable and died. The Maxam flying machine was tried at Bexley, in Kent, to-day. The trial was attended with some success, the machine flying fully five hundred yards. The report that Jabez Balfour had been shipped to London requires confirmation. During the passage of a section of the Evicted Tenants Reinstatement Bill the whole of the Conservative Party left the House, as a. protest against the application of the closure. Only the coolness of the captain and officers prevented a panic on the Miowera when she struck. The passengers were safely taken on board vessels sent to their rescue. The London banks have reduced the rates of interest on deposits by -J- per cent. W. Welltu&n's vessel in tho Arctic expedition was crushed in ice but the crew were saved At the Loan and Mercantile meeting, Mr Martin said the Directors intended to retain £500,000 of capital in hand as a liquid asset. They were considering a proposal to appoint Sir John Gorst and Mr Bristowe directors to represent the shareholders. Washikotov. Aueust 3. The deadlock over the Tariff Bill continues.