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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 303, 29 June 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

SIX YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. STRANDING of a CCUt\ t VRD LINER. ARRIVAL OF WOOL SHIPS. | Per Press Association. I London, June 27. Mr Chamberlain is communicating with the Governors of the colonies respecting colonial nominations for the position on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Divers, who have been searching for the hull of the Drammond Castle, have succeeded in finding the wreck. The following vessels have arrived in time for the wool sales commencing on thfe 30th inst.— Doric, Brodersen, Waitangi, Selkerkshire, and Brierholme. The steamer Mataura, left Plymouth today loaded for Wellington and Lyttelton. The Ruapehu left Plymouth today with 2400 tons cargo for Auckland. The tender of J. and A. Allan, Glasgow steamship owners, is the lowest for the fast Atlantic service. Mr Young of Adelaide, who has been touring Europe, declares that business in wines, fruit, and tinned meats is possible in Northern Europe, provided the Government properly advertise. ! Paris, June 27. The French newspapers are excited over tlie frequent number of flights of carrier pigeons from Cherbourg. Artou, of Panama scandal notoriety, has been sentenced to six years for embezzling funds of the Paris Dynamite Company. The Paris Exhibition authorities intend to raise 65,000,000 francs by the issue of lotteries. New Yoek, June 28. The Cunard liner Cambria is aground at New York. Calcutta, June 28. The Indian Government strongly protest against the payment of the expenses of sending a contingent of Indian troops to Suakim. St. Petersburg, June 27. The Czar is suffering from jaundice.