AMERICAN POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 50, 27 August 1895, Page 2

AMERICAN POLITICS.

DISASTROUS FIRE ATA LONDON WAREHOUSE. \ THE CHESS TOURNAMENT. THE CASE OF SURGEON LEA. I FAILURE OF A SHIPMENT OF HONEY. (For Press Association.) New Youk, August 26. Tlio failure of the United States warship Castine to salute the French flag at Tiuuative irritated the military ofiicers, who exhibited such an amount of discourtesy that a quarrel was nearly caused i bctWCf-ll the parues. Subsequent apologies, however, led to the restoration of police. The New York publican?, despite all the inilu-nce they could bring to bear and the help ni Tammany ILill, have been compelled to yield upon the Sunday closing question. Representalives of the trade met and consented to give way. Reform of the police and municip.il management is now being insisted on. London, August 20. The battleship Prince George, which belongs (o the largest class of battle-ships now built, has been launched at Ports month. The Duchess of York performed the ceremon}'. The Prince George is to steam 17i knots an hour. Her displacement, is 14,900 tons, and her engines are of 12,000 h'-rse-power. ITaywaru's seed and grain warehouse on ll'indtmry's wharf at Blackfriars has been burned. The stores were filled with grain and Mignr. The dr.mapc is estimated at £250 000. Nelson Bros.' premises near by were uninjured. Two hundred fireman wure on the scene, but were unable to prevent the destruction of the buildings. During the fire the wall of Fergusson's warehouse at Haudbury's wharf fell, destroying Nelson Bros.' shed adjoining. In the chess tournament Lasher and Tschgoriu are leading with 12 points each, Fillsbury is third with 11-i I points. Many of the tins of Victorian honey by the steamer Damascus arrived in :i gaping condition while some were empty. The Victorian Government is blamed for not stipulating for effective packing. The shipowners decline to admit liability on the ground of insecure packing. The outer casings were intact. The loss will probably fall on the shippers. Mr Goschen, in the course of his remarks in the House of Commons with regard to the Riugarooma incident, said [ that when the occurrence, which was the ' subject of enquiry by the court martial, took place the ship was lying in harbor, the senior officer was present, and other ' vessels were near at hand, and their officers could have been consulted. Surgeon Lea's twelve years' untarnished service did not effect the decision of the Court. Paris, August 26. The second attempt to launch the warship Pothnau failed.