HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 77, 27 September 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE HEAT IN LONDON. ▲ VALUABLE COLLECTION OF STAMPS. ROBBERY OF SILVER DISASTROUS LANDSLIP IN ARABIA.—IOO LIVES LOST. FENIAN CONVENTION IN CHICAGO. (PKB PBBH3 ASSOCIATION.) London, Sept. 25. Colcnel Gerald Smith, formerly member of the Honse ot Commons representing Bucks, has bean appointed Governor of Western Australia. He belongs to the old banking firm of Smith, Payne and SmithJ andj is a cousin of Lord Carrionton. The thermometer was 88 in the shade in the city. Ferdinand Rotbcbild has bought the Duke of York 'b collection of stamps valued at £56,000. A train at St Pancras Station was robbed of 34.900 ounces of silver, valued at £'4700. The drivers were absent twenty minutes. The empty boxes were recovered a mile away. Obituary— Viscount Parker. Information has been received that an immense landslip overwhelmed a bazaar at Huderya, in Yemen, and that 100 lives have been lost. Sir Herbert Murray has been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. At the London Missionary Society's centenary celebration, the Rev Messrs Lawrence, Chalmers and othera were well received. They explained what had been done in Sonth Sea work, declaring that tbe efforts of the missionaries had effeoted a revolution in the habits of the people. The Standard says the colonial market is making ready for several loans. Shanghai, Sept. 25. It is reported that the Chinese Government hits refused to accede to the demand of England for tbe banishment of the Viceroy ot Fzecbuen on the ground that he is responsible for the recent attacks on missionaries. Chicago, Sept 26. The Fenian Convention cheered the statements that were rendered to organise a standing army. Tynan and Rossa were present.