Special Cables.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1894, Page 2

Special Cables.

O ' (Per Press Association.) Pabis, November, 26. Reports are current bere that the Grand Duke George^ brother of the Czar, who has been seriously ill for some time is dead. The rumour, however, is not yet confirmed. The Paris police are conducting a crueade against the blackmailing section of the press. They have arrested M, Gerard of the Nineteenth Century. Washington, November 29. The American Bimetallic Conference at St. Louis has resolved not to vote for any candidate for public office unless he favours the free coinage of gold and silver in a ratio of 16 to 1. Romk, November 30. Tbe Pope has invited Cardinal Vaughan to visit Rome to discugs the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. He proposes to call a conference of Cardinals to discuss tbe matter. London, November 80. Mr Cliarles Bergs, representing a leading American meat firm in Liverpool, is about to sail for Sydney and Brisbane, to purchase cattle direct for shipping Home. M. Hanotauz, Minister for Foreign affairs, has called at the German Embassy and oxpressed his regret for the attacks in the press on the Embassy regarding the encouragement of spies. Count Munster said lie was not at all satisfied with the position, and complained very strongly of the way he had been troa tod,.