HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 54, 29 August 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AN ILLEGAL LOTTERY. THE BISHOP ELECT OF WELLINGTON. THE BULGARIAN MONARCHY. | Per Press Association.) London, August 25. Obituary— Earl Albernarle. Counsel advise that the Van Diemen Lottery is illegal in England, and that the promoters must resort, to the Continent. The Bishop-elect of Wellington marries Miss Williams in October. liEKLIN, AUgUSt 23. U . Stnmbouloff, the deposed Premier of Bnleraria, has had an interview with a representative of the Frank Furter Zeitun,«, at which he made some remarkable stati ments. He declared that Prince Ferdinand would not be allowed to sacrifice Bulgaria to Russia merely to gratify personal vanity. He further declared that the Rnsfdan Government had offered him five million roubles to depose Prince Ferdinand, but he had declined, as he preferred to bo hanged in Bulgaria to living in Russia. Washington, August 28. The United States banks* clearing returns show that there is a revival of trade. A dam at Lake Gohna, in Bengal, burnt, and a whole valley was flooded. The engineers had, however, foreseen the probability of an accident, and were watching the dam. Timely warning was given, and villagers to the number of one thousand were taken out of harm's way by special trains. The New York Herald publishes s despatch stating that the Nicaraguam were determined to punish the British Consul (Mr Hatch) to the full extent oi their power had he not escaped.