HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 57, 4 September 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) London, Sept. 2. Tbe Times' Rome correspondent states that King Humbert's prestige, which, I owing to national misfortunes, had reached the lowest ebb, has now largely increased. A great gale along the British coaßfcs resulted m a number of shipwrecks, and disasters on land. September 3. Percy C&vill, ot Sydney, beat Rusaeil, the Scotch champion swinjmor, over the quarter-mile by 25 yards. The Duke of Connaught, replying; to a tonst at a banquet, said he was satisfied with the soldierly bearing of the colonial troops, and pleasfd to have had them I under his command at Aldershot. A telegram has been received from Elgin, stating that Hada Mollah has collected a force of 4,000 Mohnuds, and i is preparing to attack Tichni, a British fort in Punjauh. fifteen miles nortli west j of Peshawar. Reinforcements have been despatched to the fort from Shabkadar J H. Tyers, the English amateur swimmer, has challenged Perc}' Cavill, of Sydney, to a match over any distance during the month. ! The New Zealand and Australian Land Company has declared a 5 per cent, dividend. Ottawa, Sept. 8. Of 5000 prospectors who started for the Kloudyke goldfield?, less than 50 have crossed the White Pass. Mafrid, Sept. 2. The Spanish Government recently ; suggested that the Powers should establish an international penal colony, wbeer daueerous Anarchists could bo detained for life. Spain ban now offered au island in tlio Phillipitio or Caroline Civou} s as a site for the proposed colony. The- Portuguese and Italian Governments have expressed concurrence with the proposal. The French Government has the matter under consideration.