HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 95, 18 October 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE ST. PANCRAS STATION ROBBERY. THE SALISBURY GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND. THE FRENCH NAVY. (Pee Press Association.) London, October 16. The Admiralty has granted a pension to Surgeon Lee, of the Ringarooma, who was dismissed by Court Martial. Mr E. T. Doxat, chairman and managing director of Dalgety and Co., has replaced the Hon. C T. Ritchie on the Board of Shaw, Savill and Co. A South Australian wheat cargo, ex the barque Grimus, sold at 25s 3d. Mr Scott, Commandant on the Gold Coast, insists that England must occupy Coomassie, and convince the friendly natives the protection of the British flag is a reality. The ultimatum sent to Asbantee demands a protectorate and the appointment of a British resident. Archbishop Walsh, in a letter to Mr Blake, M.P., suggests a convention in Dublin representing the Irish at Home and abroad in order to heal the dissension in the party and define the future policy. Blake disapproves of the suggestion. Colonel Gerald Smith, the new Governor of Western Australia will be banquetted on November sth. The manager of the Clerkenwell branch of Elkington and Co., the wellknown jewellers, has been arrested in connection with the recent silver robbery. Some ingots have been found on his premises. Mr Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Leeds, said that the Irish were tired of agitation, and likely to co-operate in reforms without abandoning their hope of Home Rule. Paris, October 17, The French Government propose to spend a milliard (.£40,006,000 sterling) in twelve years on ironclads and cruisers. St. Petersburg, Oct. 17. It is reported that the Russian Government will shortly mint one hundred million roubles.