HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 1 March 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

A COLONIAL SCORES A WIN. RAILWAY STRIKE. BUTCHERS OBJECT TO HORSE MEAT. (Per Press Association.) London February 27. Mr Mackintosh, of Victoria, won the Prix Quinto at Genoa, together with a gold medal and a thousand francs, defeating six English and French cracks. There is a prospect of the railway strike affecting the collieries paralysing trade, and restricting the food supplies, thus doing immense damage to business. A temporary settlement of the railway difficulty has been arranged. A conference between tbe company and the men meets ou 12th March, to discuss the grievances. The arbitrators in the Costa Rica Packet case, arising out ofthe detention of the ship by the Dutch in Java, awarded tha owner of the vessel £3150 ,* Captain j Carpenter, £1600; officers and crew, £1600, with interest since November, { 1891. The Dutch authorities were alio mulcted in £250. The Board of Trade enquiry into the abandonment of the ship Provsay resulted in tbe captain being reprimanded. Under an order of the Court Mr Sheppard, representing the Committees of Inspection, and Mr Byrne, of the Official Receiver's Department, proceed to Melbourne to day for the purpose of forming an Assets Company to take over the real property or the Mercantile, Federal and English and Australian Mortgage Banks. Rome, February 27. The butchers ia Rome have struck bb a protest agaiust tbe large consumption of horse meat. Cairo, February 28. Obituary — Rasaloula, the Abyssinian General who commanded the force which was dispatched to the relief of Kassala during the Soudan campaign in 1885. It is expected that tbe mission of Mr Rodd, tbe Queen's Envoy to King Menelek, will renult in the representa* tion of Great Britain at the Court of Negus, while the King of Abyssinia will be represented at the Queen's diamond jubilee.