SUCCESS OF COLONIAL STUDENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 12, 13 July 1895, Page 2

SUCCESS OF COLONIAL STUDENTS.

CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK. LOHMANM THE CRICKETER. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. FATAL CONFLICT WITH PEASANTS. THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME IN AMERICA. (Per Press Association.) London, July 11. Sir J. B. Thurston, on his relurn to Fiji, interviews Sir McKenzie Bowell, Premier of Canada, re trade matters. The Eastern Telegraph Company declare a dividend at the rate of 6£ per cent, for the year, and curry to the reserve £100,000 At Mr notion's meeting at Manchester, Mr Weddcll offered the ships Timarn and Opawa with cargoes of mutton direct to Manchester. The Comnaissioner.i of the 1891 Exhibition hive awirdad the science research scholarships to Ernest Rutherford, of New Zealand, and Alex. Watt, of Sydney University, The Times considers that the proposal of the City of Melbourne Bank with regard to the reduction of interest is an enormous one in view of the fact that the depositors have already made large sacrifices, and that it is not possible to justify the demands of the shareholders until the entire deposits have been paid. Lohmann, the well-known cricketer, is again taking part in county mulches, and is playing in the match —The Players v. the Gentlemen of England. The Trades Union Congress has decided to support the candidature of those favouring legal eight hours, and the nationalisation of the land as a means of production and distribution of exchange Archbishops Walsh and Croke decline to arbitrate in the international quarrels of the MacArtbyites. The Hague, July 12. The first Chamber of States-General has adopted the Convention dealing with the Costa Rica Packet case; also delimiting the British-Dutch territories in New Guinea. Athens, July 12. In a conflict between the Albanian gendarmes and the pensmts of Crete, the latter killeda n ofliccr and imprisoned a number of men. Troops were sent to secure the release of the prisoners, and in the engagement twenty were killed on each side. Home, July 12. The Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 200, igncred the Vatican's request, and declared that the anniversary of the freedom of Rome shall be celebrated as a national holiday. Ottawa, July 12. The Hon A. E. Angers, Q.C., Minister of Agriculture, has resigned. The other French Ministers remain, having agreed to postpone the Manitoba school question for the present. Washington, July 11. Mr Channcey Depew declares that the Republicans will at the next election offer to revise the tariff on the lines of ex-President Harrison's scheme, thus rejecting the McKinley tariff, -while securing increased protection and restoring the duties on wool.