HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

-• CRICKET NEWS. THE NICARAGUA INDEMNITY. A RE CONSTRUCTED COMPANY. THE TREASURER AT " HOME." j NEW ZEALAND LOAN QUOTAI TIONS. I (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION) ■London, May S« Queensland and New Zealand scrip is quoted at 4i per cent, premium and West Australian 4£. Lady Ripon presented Mra Ward and Mrs Montague Nelson at the Queen's Drawing-room reception. The barque Aeolus, of 1217 tons which left Sydney for London on Oct. 4th, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. In the course of an interview Richardson, the Surrey bowler, declared George Giffen one of the greatest of batsmen, and that amongst the most promising of Australian cricketers are Iredale, Darling, A. E. Trott and Clem Hill. Both Stoddart and Brown concur in this opinion. Calcutta, May 9. The Ameer of Afghanistan has placed Umra Khan under surveillance in Kabul. New York, May 9. ; The residents of Managia, the capital of Nicaragua, have subscribed the amount of the indemnity demanded by the British Government. May 9. The Right Hon. Sir Arthur Hayter, M.P. for Walsall, has been mentioned ns the successor of the late Sir Robert Duff, but Sir A. Hayter denies any truth in the reprrfc. Obituary— The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, son of the famous Sir Robert Peel, and brother of the late Speaker of the House of Commons. He died suddenly from hemorrhage of the brain. The London creditors of the City of Mtlbourne Bank have formed a committee to protect their interests. The scheme for reforming the Freehold and Investment Banking Company as amended by the London and Glasgow committee, was forwarded to Melbourne at the beginning of April. It is believed that the points of difference are easy of adjustment. Capetown, May 9. Replying to a question in the Assembly, the Premier, Mr Rhodes, said the Imperial authorities had not consulted ihe Cape Government prior to the annexation ofthe Ambegesa country. St. Petersburg, May 8. The Novoe Vremya says that when Great Britain received the Pamir agreement as a guarantee of Russia's peaceful intentions in respect to India, she clandestinely raised the Armenian question next door to the Caucasus, and tried to trip Russia .