HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 253, 30 April 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

♦ | (Per Press Association). London, Appil 28. J. H. Smith, late Chairman of the i South Australian Railway Commission- j ers, is appealing to Speight's friends to raise the amount of security to enable j him to appeal to the Privy Council j against the judgment in the libel action | against the Age, The amount of security fixed by the Victorian Court is considered excessive. The Royal Victorian Order is to be conferred chiefly for personal service to the Queen. Numerous applications have been received for positions on the Adelaide Hospital staff. The English, Scottish, and Australian Bank Bill has passed its final stages in the House of Commons. The Geographical Society Founders' medal has been awarded to Sir Win. Macgregor for exploration work in New Guinea. To-day Prince Christian was knocked down by a city cab, and badly shaken. The West Australian loan of threequarters of a million at 3 per cent, with a minimum of 96, for which tenders open on Monday next, are quoted at 2| per cent premium. Heavy tendering is expected. Lisbon, April 28. Portugal has permitted Great Britain to convey arms through her territory at Beira, on the East Coast of Africa. Constantinople, April 28. Mr Napp, the American missionary who was expelled from Diarkbekir, has been released from custody.