HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 43, 19 August 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

(Per Press Association.) London, August 16. The Bishop of Auckland returns to New Zealand, via Australia, in the P. and 0. Company's Australia, and the Bishop of Waiapu in tbe Rimutaka. August 18. Mr Reeves, in opening tbe Labour Association's Exhibition, which was being beld at Crystal Palace, referred to I tbe striking success of tbe co operative movement in New Zealand. The members of tbe various Colonial rifle teams wbo took patt in the recent competitions nt Bmley are to receive jubilee medals. A girl bas died at Betbnal Green, London, from tbe effeots of Asiatic cholera. It is, however, probably a sporadic case. During a gun practice on H.M.S. Champion, a third class screw cruiser belonging to tbe training Bquadron, a guv burst and an officer and seven of the crew were injured. The Cobden Club bas conferred its gold medal npon Sir Wilfred Laurier. Colombo, August 18. A fire occurred aboard tbe Oroya on the Bth. A portion of her cargo was damaged but steamer was nninjured and left Colombo on ber voyage to Australia. Constantinople, August 18. The Porte, alarmed at tho anarchy existing in Kurdistan, is mobiluing troops in the eastern vi'ayets or territorial districts of Kurdistan. Pretoria, August 17. President Kruger opposes the abolition of the monopoly for the supply of dynamite for the mines on the Rand.