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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 97, 21 October 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) London, October 19. The Qneen has forwarded letters of condolence to the relatives of the late Rev Charles Vauglian, Deau of Llandaff. Speakiig at Sheffield, Sir Howard ' Vincent said that while foreign com pet i ' tors were assisted by tariffs and bounties i it was sheer madness to fetter British J trade with impossible conditions. I It i» suggested that efforts should be made to localise the engineers' dispute to London with a view of securing a conference with the masters and also resort to arbitration at a subsequent stage. One thousand five hundred Manchester merchants and traders have petitioned the Government in favor of bimetallism. The Right Rev William Walsh, Bishop of Mauritius, hat been appointed to the Archdeaconry and Canonry of Canter bury. October 20. The Russian cruiser Rastrous is aground on a reef off the Island of Elba in tbe Mediterranean sea. A British ntcamer has gone to her assistance. Labor organisation** on the Continent have contributed £2400 to the Eugiueer Strike fund. Canon Scott Holland lias expressed an opinion mediation through the Government is morally obligatory. [ In a letter to tbe Times W. H. Bishop asks why the official receiver is deprived of control of the New Zealand Midland Railway and land grants. Mr JKeeves. Agent General for New Zealand, is conferring with the Dock and Shipping Companies relative to tbe erection of cold storage in London on proportionate basis for New Zealand frozen meat and produce. The United Kingdom alliance at a conference in Manchester renewed its demand for local veto and the closing of hotels. Lord Justice Lindlcy succeeds Lord Usher as Master of Rolls. Belgr^dk, October 20. The King has accepted tbe resignation of the Cabinet, rind a neutral Ministry is being formed. Berlin, October 20. The Czar is at present on a visit to the Emperor of Germany, at Wiesbaden. Pretoria, October 20. The Volksraad Committee recommend the abolition of intercolonial transit duties and reduction io the price of dynamite by 19s per case. Paris, October 20. A syndicate has advanced a French Railway Company six million francs for tho construction of a tunnel through tbe Simplon Pass iv tho Swiss Alps. M Andree J^ibon, Minister for the Colonies, is at present on a visit to Seuegal, where France is making great efforts to establish an African Empire. Madrid, October 20. The Anarchists who were lately released at Barcelona are not implicated in tbe prosecutions sow pending for bomb outrages. Calcutta, October 20. The tribesmen have re-occupied Chagra Valley in great force. The Bubonic plague has spread to Julluindur, in the Puujaub, where 23 deaths have occurred. Ottawa, October 20. An attempt was made en the life of Sir Wilfred Launer, tho Premier, by a disappointed office seeker, who aimed at him with a revolvlr. The Premier escaped uninjured. The Canadian Government has not received any tenders lor the new mail service. Oce condition was that vessels should not call at any American port. The Times nays there are strong feelings against vessels touching at any American port. The Government are arranging for a temporary Bervice. Cairo, October 19. The report that Ras Makonnen, an Abyssinian chief, bad been killed while leading a raid against the Somalia in East Africa, is denied, and it is stated that he is now mobilising 20,000 troops to attack the Somalia. Capetown, October 20. The newspapers in the Colony ridicule tbe infinitesimal concessions made by tbe Transvaal Volksraad in respect to dynamite votes and tbe Railway tariff.