HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

BRITISH DIPLOMACY. THE CABLE QUESTION. A CYCLE BE CORD. CANADIAN PREMIER RESIGNS. GREAT FLOODS IN JAPAN. THE CRETAN REBELLION. (Per Press Association.) London, July 8. The estimated American visible wheat supply was 50,400,000 bushels. There was a full meeting of the Pacific Cable Commission yesterday, Earl Selbourne, Under-Secretary of estate tor the Colonies, presiding. The Secretary had arranged for witnesses to be present to give evidence on various points in order to facilitate the exhaustive enquiry, but Mr Donald Smith's presence was urgently required in Canada, and finding they would be unable to report this session, the Commission adjourned till October 26. Lord Selbourne, who 3aid he was ex. tremely busy just now, concurred in this course. The Red Cross Society is again prevented from visiting Abyssinia. Agar Wynne, of Victoria, has purchased the late Baron Hirsch's stallion Graf ton for stud purposes. Lincoln, a cyclist, has ridden 34 miles in an hour. The Maori Dream Goldmining Co. of New Zealand, which was recently floated with a capital of LIOO.OOO, is offering L 70.000 to the public. Ottawa, July 9. Sir Charles Tupper, Premier, has resigned owing to the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor-General, refusing to sanction a political appointment made after the elections. Berlin, July 9. The German Press is excited over the report that Britain has purchased a strip of territory in Delagoa Bay, giving access to the interior. ToKio,July 9. Floods in Toyania destroyed 3000 houses. Athens, July 9. The Cretan Christians demand economic autonomy, paying tribute to the Porte, and the appointment of a Christian Governor who shall have a right to veto tbe projects of the Assembly.