CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 1, 3 July 1899, Page 2

CABLES.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright, London, June 30.

Madame Melba has been outraged to sing io Germany, Paris, St Petersburg, and Italy. Another trial between tlie yachts Columbia and Defender was mailed ov< r a 38-ruiles course. The t ' < * 1 u r i ■ 1 j i ; j, <^aye the Defender two mii.uf.'.-.s' s'ar:, and won by eight rainnti-s. The Tsung Li Yatueu lias ab .ndnneil ': its intention to dismiss Mr Kinder, the I English engineer who constructed the

railway between Tientsin and Pekin when warned that Great Britain would view this action in a serious light. The Tsune Li Yamen also acknowledged the right of the Pekin syndicate (an Italian company; to construct railways in the provinces of Shansi aud Honan, and so effect connection with the Yangtze Valley. Tlie quarterly revenue returns show receipts L27,774,~> ( .>H, including Customs, L 5.497.000, Excise, L 7,713,543 and stamps L 2.180.000 Jurors speak in laudatory terms of the Victorian exhibits at the Greater Britain Exhibition, and it isexr-cc'pd that 'JO per cent, will recede first awards In the House of Commons tho Clergy Tithes Relief Bill was read a second time by a majority of 238 votes. It ia officially announced that the Duke of Connaught has renounced his claim to the h> :r hip nf the Dukedom of Saxe-Cohurg in favor ot tlie Duke of Albany.

Cairo, June 23

Twenty-six Emirs and two thousand woman and children nnd a thousand Dervishes wbo deserted Khalifa havo been allowed to settle at GedarefT Sennar.

Paris, June 30,

The municipal authorities have adopted motor fire engines and water carts.