HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR. PROVIDING THE SINEWS OF WAR A DIAMOND MERCHANT ROBBED. [PBB VBKBS ASSOCIATION/! \ London, September 14. ' The barque Kenilworth, 158 days out from Melbourne to London, is being reinsured at 10 per cent. Three bogus diamond merchants inveigled a Dutch merchant into their offices at Hatton Garden yesterday afternoon, and after administering drugs robbed him of diamonds valued at £500. The robbers got safely away. - A letter in the Times, written by a resident in Sydney, advocates that the Imperial Government should select an Austr&liam judge to sit on the English Bench in Australian appeal cases. Sir E. Clarke, on behalf of the shareholders of the Bank of England, propo3f d that an enquiry should be held into the proceedings of Mr May, the kite chasbier. He alleged that May introduced customers to the worst stocks, involving a loss of £400,000, including his own .overdraft. This had seriously affected the honor of the Bonk. In reply, Mr Powell said Sir Edwaxd Clarke should not make statements on the authority of customers. The motion was not seconded* Paris, September 14. If a French campaign is made in Madagascar the estimated required cost will
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 69, 15 September 1894, Page 2
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