HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

WRECK OF A WAR VESSEL. CHILLED MEAT TRADE. THE MADAGASCAR CAMPAIGN 11 CHILDREN BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. (Per Press Association.) London, November 29. Lord Warkworth (Tory) has been returned unopposed for the Ivenshigton South seat iv the House of Commons rendered vacant by Sir A. Borthwick, being created a Peer. King Humbert of Italy and his wife will visit England in the spring. The Provost of Glasgow is arranging for meeting the ship-yard employes and strikers with a view of coming to a set tlement of the difficulty. The Rakaia's chilled beef from Queensland was carried at a temperature of 50 degrees. There was a sign of mould on the 45th day and it was frozen hard on the 49th. When discharged the meat was sweet and sound but dull in appear ance. Six cases of pleuro pneumonia were discovered among the cattle ex Maori King from Sydney. ' A mad dog bit eleven children at Sunbury. Kabies is preyailing round London. Paris, Nov. 29. The Chamber of Deputies declined to appoint a committee to enquire into the management of the Madagascar war. The Premier declared Government would apportion the blame. M. Souligouse, alleged to be an accomplice of Marton in the Panama canal frauds have been arrested. Caracas, November 28. The Governors of the various provinces in Venezuela have assured General Crespo, President, that 100,000 troops are available in the event of war over the British Guiana question. Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 28. The Brazilian warship Urans has been wrecked, and the commander and five ef the crew drowned. Vienna, Nov. 29. Obituary. — Count Taaffe, an Austrian statesman.