HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 302, 26 June 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

THE NEW REVOLT AGAINST TURKISH RULE. ROYAL BANK OF QUEENSLAND. RISE IN WOOL EXPECTED. MORE BIG CRICKET SCORES. SENSATIONAL MURDER AND SUICIDE. THE LATE PRESIDENT CARNOT. (Per Press Association). London, June 24. Mr Eddy will not read a paper at the Railway Congress. He leaves for Sydney immediately, arriving early in September. Owing to the consumption of stock firmer rates are expected at the wool sales before autumn. Playing for Sussex against Oxford G. L. Wilson scored 174 and Murlow 100. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York have both subscribed to the Grace fund. Dr Grace, speaking at a banquet given to him at Clifton, referred to the intense excitement in England during Stoddart's tour. He considered it was a great achievement to win three test matches in a countrj' where hospitality was all against good cricket. £801,000 has been tendered for the Newfoundland loan, half a million at i'onr per cent. The minimum was 98.V, and the average of tenders 99 £. £•150,000 of the Royal Bank of Queensland debentures have been subscribed. This includes the amount which English depositors are willing to convert. A birge number of members of the Stock Exchnnge, both in London and the leading provincial centre?, have memorialised the Chancellor of. the Exchequer against any change in the monetary' system. Calcutta, June 24. The Maharajah of Patna killed his wife and then committed suicide. Paris, June 25. Memorial services as a mark of respect to the late President Carnot were held throughout Fraucc. President Faurc placed a wreath on the tomb in the Pantheon and attended the service at La Madeline. Constantinople, June 24. The outbreak in Macedonia is increasing. The revolt in MaccJcnia is gaining strength, and the Tnrkih soldiery have been twice defeate-1. Capetown, June 24. The Frozen Meat Act does not come into operation until August Ist.