HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 64, 12 September 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Cairo, bept. 10. The men cetnpnsin<z the expeditionary force, advancing oo Dongola, are all between the ages of 26 and 32, and have seen six year's service. London, Sept. 10. 1 The death is announced of Professor Palmieri. S:. James' Gazette considers that the Australian cricket team i 9 tho strongest whic-h has visited here since 1884, but that it is not equal to the highest standard of English cricket. Sept. 11. Sailed— Wakatera for Auckland. A general decline in the markets has followed the advance in bank rate, especially in Home railways and South AfricaD shares. The ship Dalgonar from Liverpool to Sydney, which put into St. Vincent with I her cargo ou tire, was towed back to Liverpool. The Trades Congress demands pensions for aged workers, amnesty for all political offenders, and public control of education. St. Petersburg, Sept. 10. The Russian Government is negotiating for a revision of the Ottoman commercial treaties, and claims further concessions in respect to the passage of the Dardanelles. Washington, September 10. The Democratic Governor of Arkausas has been elected by a majority of sixty thousand. Gross corruption is alleged in connection with the election. Capetown, Sept. 10. The President; of the Orange Free State addressing the Cuscoms Conference, expressed the hope that the various States would abolish the present political unrest and work harmoniously in creating a uDited South Africa. Ottawa, Sept 11. Laurier, Premier, has announced he would, next session, introduce an Alien Labour Bill to retaliate upon the United States unless the hostility to Canadian workmen shown by that country, is withdrawn.