HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 62, 7 September 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

PRAYERS BEING OFFERED FOR THE CZAR. EUROPEAN ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL. THE EXCHANGE OF CYPRUS. BANK OF ENGLAND PAYS A DIVIDEND OF SIX PER CENT. \ NEWSPAPER OFFICE RAIDED. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION). Berlin, September G The Berlin Tageblatt says that England and Turkey are negotiating for tuo exchange of Cyprus plus twelve million sterling and Crete. London, September 6 The statement that negotiations are proceeding for the exchange of Cyprus and Crete is discredited here. The Trades' Union Congress, sitting at Norwich, carried a resolution in favor of a general " eight hours," by 276 to 5 ; also, motions in favor of payment of members of Parliament, and legislation in the direction of making employers criminally liable for using defective plant. The Board of Agriculture has decided to prosecute anyone fouud selling foreign fruit as English. The revenue officers made a raid on " The Million " office for publishing imitation postage stamps. The Bank of Australasia declares a dividend of 6 per cent, per annum, and £120,000 has been carried forward. During a balloon trial at Aldershob, lightning struck four soldiers holding the wire ropes, and they fell at the feet of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. The accident caused a great sensation. The Duke rushed forward to assist the men, but the Duchess, horrified at the scene, left tne spot immediately. Mr J. Chamberlain, at Liverpool, referring to Mr W. O'Brien and Dr Tanner's agitation against the House of Lords, said that England would not allow two rowdy Irishmen to upset the Constitution. Owing to the stubborn fighting of Nuna, chief of the Benin district, on the west coast of Africa, the Widgeon and Philomel have been ordered from the Cape to suppress the forces there. The Phrcbe and Alecto landed parties of sailors, but the latter's were forced to retreat to the vessel, with a slight loss. Sofia, September 6. M. Sfcambuloff has been charged before a magistrate with using insulting language, respecting Prince Ferdinand, in au interview with a representative of the Frankfuster Zeetung. St. Petersburg, September 6. Prayers are being offered up in churches for the Czar, who is iv a low state of health. The Hague, September 6. An Interparliamentary Conference at rhe Hague has appointed a Committee to draft a scheme for European arbitration tribunal.