HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 117, 15 November 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) London, November 13. John Thomas Morton, the well-known oilman, has bequeathed half a million to ! missions and charities. Mr Morton took \ a considerable interest in the mission in the New Hebrides. It is reported that the British Government insists on the French evacuating Itanssa, West Africa. Prior to her departure for America, Madame Melba was entertained at a farewell banquet at Brighton. j The Shaw, Savill and Albion Com j pany'g steamer Tokomaru, Homeward b«and, which pat into Rio de Janiero narly in October for repairs, sailed for her destination on Friday last. November 14. The Russian Government has ordered two 30 knot turbine torpedo boats from a Newcattle-on-Tyne firm. Mr A. Sellicks, Chairman of the Executive, and Mr Barnes, Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers Society, attend :\ conference as representatives of the Engineers. They will urge that either Lord James or Mr Ritchie be appointed chairman. The warship Royal Arthur has been commissioned to replace the Orlando on the Australian station. She sails on Thursday on a trial trip. She did 18 knots an hour. Vienna, November 14. Speaking in the Reichrath, Count Badeni, Premier, said the Government was anxious to arrive at a compromise upon the i]uestion as to the uae of the Bohemian language, and that it fully recognised the importance of the subject to Germany. i Berlin, Nov. 14. The German East African fleet has been ordered to Shantung, in the Gulf of Pechili, China, to redress the murder, some time ago, of missionaries belonging to a German mission. Ottawa, November 14. The Canadian Insurance offices are refusing to insure immigrants for Klondyke goldtields.