HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 181, 4 February 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

j. Mccarty and the irish PARTY. PRINCE BATTENBERG'S FUNERAL. OLYMPIAN GAMES REVIVED. THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. (Per Press Association.) London, February 3. Prince Henry of 6attenberg will be buried on Wednesday. The ebief theatres -will be closed that day as a mark of respect. At a meeting of the Australasian Mortgage Company, Mr Claig said the directors hoped to be able to present a better statement for the coming year owing to the rise in wool. The Consuls at Zeitoun report that seven attacks were made on the town, but all were repulsed with immense loss. J. McCarty has resigned the leadership of the Irish Party on the ground of ill-health and over-work. The Agents-General have been invited to attend the funeral of the lato Lord Leighton. The Emperor aud King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, will attend the Olympian games inaugurated by Jupiter which are to be revived at Athens in April next. Mr Gladstone, writing to the Press, states that when the evacuation of Egypt was proposed in 1892 the Powers were not willing to assist in arranging the terms of settlement. Washington. Feb. 3. The United States Government has demanded 100,000 dollers indemnity for the wreckage of the missions at Mar ash and Kharput. A motion has been tabled in the Senate to raise a, loan of one hundred million dollars, for the construction of national defences. The Silver Bill fixes the rate of exchange with gold at 16 to 1. The President is regarded as certain to veto it. ___^___