HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE LATE DUKE of SUTHERLAND ACCIDENT TO A ROYAL WEDDING PARTY. THE NEW ATLANTIC MAIL SERVICE. | THREE MILLIONS TO BE RAISED TO BUILD STEAMERS. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. MORE COMPLICATIONS. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION. > London, August 9. Obituary — Lord Denman, jetat 89. At the Co wes' Regatta the Britania won the plate, defeating Vigilant by 2 mins 15secs. August 10. Mesrs Huddart, Parker and Co. will shortly invite applications for capital to the extent of three million pounds for the construction of steamers for the new Atlantic service. The per.ionalty of the late Duke of Sutherland has been proved at £1,200,000. Washington, August 10. A section of the House of Representatives are insisting on the free admission af coal. It is feared their action may imperial the agreement between both Houses. Wool will remain free unless the present Bill is altered or rejected. Rome. August 10. Four towns, including Aci and Fieri, have been destoyed by the earthquake in Sicily. The people have fled into the open country. Paris, August 10. Owing to the refusal of the French Goverumeut to adopt his machine gun, M. Turpin has again offered it to Germany. St. Pkteesbubo, August 10. After their marriage on Monday last the Archduke Alexander and his wife (the Duchess Xenia, eldest daughter of the Czar) were (driving from Peterhoff lo Kopscha, when the carriage rolled over | an embankment. The Duchess was somewhat injured, and immediately the news reached the palace the Czar and Czarina left for Kopscha.