LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 April 1901, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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Tha Quean’s Memorial. Received this day at 9 0 a.m. London, April 21. The Queen Victoria National Memorial Fund amounts to £710,000. The Duko of York contributed £SOO. Cricket Dispute. Dr W. G. Grace states the Captains of Country Clubs shirked arriving at decision question of bowlers throwing. It is believed the discussion will lead umpires employing greater strictness. The American Cup. Liplon’s Yacht Shamrock II challenger , of the America Cup has been launched on Denny’s shipbuilding yard Dumbarton, i The Mad Mullah. j The mad Mullah with forty thousand' followers including eight thousand horseman, who have ammunition, obtained from an unknown source, are encamped at Lassa Jalawady on tho river Tug Bayr, forty miles cast of Burao. The British are concentrating at Burao. Ealigion in Portugal. Received this day, at 8 57 a.m. Lisbon, April 21. The Portugese Government has issued a decree that religious associations must bo directed by Portuguese citizens except in case of associations exclusively foreign. Seven Jesuit, Franciscan, and Benedictine houses and ton Convents have been closed.

A Diabolical Plot. New Yoke, April 21. The Now York Herald states that .Rosario of tho Argentine police, has discovered a plot shown by paper to have been organised at Paterson, Now Jersey, to assassinate tho Kaiser, Czar. King and Queen of Italy, and Count Turim.