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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 80, 1 October 1895, Page 2

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CABLES. THE NEW GOVERNOR of QUEENSLAND. LIVE CATTLE THU>E. THREATENED WAR ON THE I ASHANTEE GOLD COAST. CHOLERA CURE IN INDIA. M. PASTEUR'S DEATH. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION | Peb Pbess Association.] London, September 30. Lord Leamington bas been appointed Governor of Queensland. The Times says he has travelled widely*, and will be likely to prove a good successor to Sir H. Norman, whose record of able and kindly Government it will be difficult to surpass. The Financial News com men ting on Mr Ward's Budget advises the speedy extinction of the remaining Treasury Bills. Lieut-Col Sir Walter Wilkin has been chosen Lord Mayor of London. • Seventeen British warships are now assembled at Lem eos iu ihe Aegean. The Porte is alarmed at this action on the part of the Imperial Government. The steamer Buteshire from Queenslaud, via Lyttelton, has arrived at Las Pal mas. Twenty of her consignment of sheep died on the voyage. Owing to the threatened war in the Ashantee Gold Coast officers have been summoned to London to confer with the authorities here. Professor Haffkine is returning to Europe after a residence of three years in India where, at his owu expense, he has innoculated upwards of 40,000 people against cholera, ludian officials confirm the efficacy of his process, though during the cholera epidemic in Lucknow the proportion of deaths of persons innoculated was similar to those not treated by thc Professor's process. The Observer applauds New South Wales and Tasmania for prompting an Antarctic expedition, which it considers more dangerous than one to the North Pole. Both the English and the French papers lament the death of M. Pasteur as the loss of the foremost scientist of the age. Washington, Sept. 3 ). M Harrison does not intend to stand for the Presidency. Pabis, Sept. 29. M. Pasteur will receive a Stats funeral. The French Budget Committee reduced the wav estimates by L249,000. St. Petebsbubg, Sept. 29. Eighteen additional batteries of artillery are to be added to the Russian military establishment. Tokio, Sept 29. Count Ito escaped unhurt. The plot against him was betrayed.