HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 56, 3 September 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE OUTRAGE ON THE CONGO. 1 FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT. THE CHESS TOURNAMENT. A BIG CRICKET SCORE. (Per x J ress Association). London, Sept. 1. The Statist considers Premier Reid's banking proposals indicate fear of another run, and will not rife the credit of New South Wales. The paper doubted whether the time has arrived to invest trust funds in Colonial securities. Pittsbnrg is leading in the chess tourney with 15:t, points, Tchegorin 15, Lasker 14f The Times thinks Mr Reid's supplementary Budget speech very satisfactory. W. L. Murdoch, now cnptain of the Sussex county team, has scored over 1000 runs in first-class cricket this 6eason. The Times hopes that the pre=ent revival in trade will relegate bimetallism to the background. Berlin. Sept. 2. Germany is advising the Porte lo concur in the Armenian reforms. Brussels, Sept. 1. The Belgians asnerb that Stokes was executed at Kilunga after confessing he had promised to assist the Arab chief Kidongi against Major Lothaine. Washington, Sept. 1. An excursion train was wrecked at Macon, Georgia, Several were killed and sixty injured. An athlete has travelled 220 yds on a circular track at Chicago in 21 4 ;ssec, which is the world's record for a track of that shape. Pauis, Sept. 1. China has agreed to pay France four million francs (.£160,000) for the outrage at Szuchnan, The French press is greatly irritated at the prominence given in Germany this year to the fetes in commemoration of the Franco-German war St. Petersburg, Sept. 2. The Russian Government has refused to allow German residents in the countrj' to celebrate the anniversary of the fall of Sedan.