CONDENSED CABLEGRAM.

Evening Star, Issue 10391, 12 August 1897, Page 4

CONDENSED CABLEGRAM.

Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, ha 3 been created a Knight Justice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Justice Sir James Stirling has sanctioned the reduction of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's capital by a million and a-haif.

bir George Grey, who for a long time past has been seriously ill in London, is now improving, and is able to take carriage exercise. / Dr W. Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield (England), is dead. The Victorian Government have decided to light the trains with gas. The complete installation will cost £:20,'000.

Sir Matthew W. Ridley, speaking at Blackpool (England), asserted that the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture was needlessly gloomy, but the remedy for the depressed state of things was the display of more energy on the part of the British agriculturist. Reports from Argentine regarding the present wool season show that the wool is superior, both in quality and quantity, to the clip of 1896. The grain crops are also splendid, and double acreage is under crop. The American Government have issued a warning to miners of the dangers and difficulties to be encountered in proceeding to the Klondike goldfields. Ferdinand of Bulgaria is at present on a visit to the Sultan, who invited him in order to dissuade' him from proclaiming the independence of Bulgaria on the 14th. The Vienna journals are referring in uncomplimentary terms to the effusiveness displayed by Emperor William of Germany to the Russians.

Mr Macintosh, the Victorian pigeon shot, won the Ostend champion prize, valued at £IGO, and a gold medal, killing twenty-eight out of thirty birds.