HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 270, 18 May 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. COSTA RICA PACKET CASE. THE WILDE SCANDAL. THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. (Per Press Association.) London, May 17. Lord Ripon has replied to the AgentsGeneral that owing to the fact that he lias received no intimation of the holding of the Monetary Conference, he is unable to consider whether the colonies can be allowed a direct representation upon it. Playing for Surrey against Warwickshire, Brockwell took eight wickets for twenty-two runs. Wilde and Taylor will be tried again on Monday before Mr Justice Wills. Nelson Bros are sending an experimental skpmenr, of 12 tons of butter and seven tons of cheese to the Cape and Natal Obituary —Duke of Hamilton. Tichborne has sworn to an affidavit confessing himself to b Arthur Orton. A fire in Bermondsey destroyed £-200,000 worth of property. Paris, May 17. A French torpedo boat capsized at Rochefort, and four of the crew were drowned. Vienna. May 17. Kalnoky has again sent in his resignation, and the Emperor has accepted it. Count Kalnoky's retirement is regarded as a crushing blow to the reaction in Hungary. Count Goluchowski will probably be his successor. .Berlin, May 16. The Prussian Diet has passed a motion in favor of bimetalism. Thk Hague, May 16. The Convention signed a treaty at The Hague delineating British and Dutch territory in New Guinea, and referring the Costa Bica Packet dispute to arbitration. Rome, May 17. The Pope has issued a letter ordering Catholics to take no part in the Italian general election owing to the refusal of the Government to grant him liberty.