HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 286, 9 June 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE PEINCE OF WALES AND THE DERBY. THE CZAR AND HIS SUBJECTS. ] GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY. ! THE RINDERPEST SCOURGE. ] 1 (Per Press Association.) ( London, June 8. . The Kaiser's yacht Meteor sailed over j the course from the Nore to Dover in , shr 2sec, beating the Britannia by nine ■ minutes. The Irish members have petitioned the Home Secretary for clemency to political prisoners, pointing out the example set by PresidentKruger. The Prince of Wales opened the Trade's Exhibition in East London. In responding to the cheer 3 over his success ' in the Derby said he was gratified to win the race with a horse of his own breeding. Sir Hercules Robinson has arrived from the Cape. St. Petersburg, June 7. The Czar has assigued 20,000 roubles for the support of children injured, and whose parents were killed at the recent fete. Cairo, Jnne 7. The officials of the Khedive have arrested and maltreated two editors who had written articles attacking the Young Turkish Party. Lord Croiner has protested against this illegal arrest and the conduct of the officers. Rome, June 8. The Duke of Sermonet, Foreign Minister, in referring to Mr Balfour's complaint on disclosures in the Green Book, said Great Britain had showed great goodwill and unvarying sincerity in the discussion on the Abyssinian negotiations. Capetown, June 8. Africau experts declare it will cost £1,000,000 sterling to extirpate the rinderpest in the Rand.