HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 220, 18 March 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

WATERLOO CUP. JABEZ BALFOURS' EXTRADITION. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. AMERICA DEMANDS AN APOLOGY FROM SPAIN. TURKEY AND THE ARMENIANS. BRITISH RULE IN EGYPT. THE MISSING WARSHIP. THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, March 15. In the final of the Waterloo Cup Thoughtless Beauty beat Fortuna Faventi. Obituary — Corney Grain, the wellknown entertainer, from influenza. The Duke of Aosta has been betrothed to the Princess Helene, second daughter of the late Comte de Paris. The Daily News states Leonard Courtenay has declined the Speakership, owing to the opposition evinced by the Conservatives. Mr Labouchere and the Radicals also disapproved of his nomination. Further reports, so far unconfirmed, have been received that the Argentine Government has ordered Jabez Balfour's extradition, but the Salta officials are again causing delay. The betting on the University beat race is three to one on Oxford. The Komata Reefs Goldmining Company of New Zealand, with a capital of has been registered. Owing to the number of fatalities among the live cattle shipped on the Gulf of Bothnia, the insurance companies propose a charge of 20 per cent, on cattle shipped under similar circumstances. i In the House of Commons, Mr J. W. Lowther said that all self-governed portions of the Empire except Great Britain and New South Wales had declared in favour of protection, and that it was necessary to grant the colonies reciprocal powers. The Egyptian Ministry has approved Sir John Gorst's scheme for regulating the duties and powers of Sheiks in accordance with Nubar Pasha's policy. This is regarded as a triumph for British rule in Egypt. New York, March 17. The Superior Court reversed sentence on Erastus Winian, sentenced to five year's for forgery. Bupa. Pesth, March ItBrazil has resumed diplomatic relations with Portugal, interrupted since declaration of the Republic. Paris, March 12. Ribot's scheme of social reform includes the reorganisation of the Labor Unions on non-political lines, mutual assurance, pensions for the aged, and abolition of the tax on the transfer of land. M. Jules Simon, the well - known French statesman, says the acceptance by the French Government of the invitation of Germany to visit Kiel and take part in celebrations in connection with the opening of the North Sea Canal is the harbinger of peace between the nations. M. Simon adds that personally he knows the German Emperor is desirous of seeing the continuance of peace. In a recent interview the Kaiser said, " I wish France to be thoroughly convinced that I do not desire war." Madrid, March 16. The Government has been informed that the wreckage found at Aciennos Bajos does not belong to the missing warship Reine Regente, and this discovery leads to the hope that the vessel may yet turn up safely. The United States Government has made a peremptory demand upon the Spanish Government to apologise for the action of the Spanish warship in re-> peatedly firing on the United States steamer Alliance on the Cuban coast. Constantinople, March 15. The Armenians confined in Turkish prisons include eight bishops and 24 priests and doctors. They were all arrested for political reasons, and none were tried prior to being thrown into prison. The prisoners are restricted to 21b of bread dally.