HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5, 5 July 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE BOXING FATALITY. (Per Press Association.) London, July 4. The Chinese loan of a million sterling at 6 per cent has been subscribed six fold in London. Pekin telegrams state the agreement respecting the Eusso-Chinese loans is signed. | Mrs Craigie, a w T ell-known writer, who uses the pseudonym " John Oliver Hobbs," has obtained a divorce on the ground of her husband's cruelty aud adultery. Mr MacMillan, ex-Treasurer of New South Wales, lias cabled the Premier to send the promised instructions respecting the Agent-Generalship. He has made preliminary enquiries but is unable to proceed till instructed, and waits in London till the end of the month. The Stock Exchange has decided to quote New Zealand o per cents. Washington, July 4. A powerful section of the Republicans throughout the United States announce their intention of abandoning the silver question and declare that the abolition of the iniquities in the Wilson tariff be their main issues in the Presidential election contest. Fitzsimmorjs, the boxer, was acquitted on the charge of manslaughter arising out of the death of an opponent in a boxing match. Sofia, July 4. The signatories of the Berlin Treaty have warned Bulgaria against rising a rebellion in Macedonia. Paris, July 8. News has been received from Madagascar that the French troops defeated several thousand Hovas at Tsurasoatra.