HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 186, 10 February 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

RELIEF FOR ENGLISH FARMERS. LORD DUNRAVEN APOLOGISES. MR SEXTON AND THE IRISH PARTY. SUICIDE OF AN ACTOR. (Per Press Association.) London, Feb. 8. The Warrigal'B sheep brought 28s 6d. It is reported that a call of £1 will be made by the Bank of South Australia. Trinity College, Dublin, confers the Doctorship of Law upon Sir Maurice O'Rorke, Speaker of the House of Representatives, N.Z. The statement by the New York Herald that England cedes the Island of Trinidad to Brazil is denied. Prernpeh, King of Ashantee, has accepted British protection. The prosrjectus of the Thames-Hau-raki Gold Mining Company, with a capital of £300.000, is being issued. Shares to the extent of are being offered to the public. Mr Balfour, replying to a deputation of farmers, said the Government intended to amend the assessment laws It is reported Lord Dunravcn has apologised to the New York Yacht Club. Mr Sexton has been unanimously offered the leadership of the Macarty section of the Irish Party but takes time to consider. New Yokk, February 9. Harry Eversfield, actor, committed suicide at New York. St. Petersburg, Febr. 9. The Czar congratulated Ferdinand on his decision to bring up his son in the Greek faith. He praised Bulgaria, and promised that relations with it should be resumed. A Russian delegate will attend the ceremony. Berlin, Feb. 9. The Chancellor considers it would be futile to hold a monetary conference and the German Government will not summon one. Unlimited coinage must be dependent on the reopening of the Indian mints, which England declines to do.