HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 147, 21 December 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Brussels, Dec. 20. The Senate has passed an Act declaring gambling in stocks and the fictitious delivery of goods a criminal offence, and has also passed a strong law against betting and gambling generally. London, Dec. 18. Tbe Royal Geographical Society support the proposal to baild an observatory at Mount Wellington. December 20. Sir Robert Peel has been ordered to restore a quantifcv of plate and heirlooms, valued at ".£3OOO, which he had converted to his own use. Parson's turbine, a new invention, was applied to a vessel at Newcastle, which easily registered twenty-nine knots with I if-q 3,1(1 | Sir H. Norman, Sir G. Grey, and Sir D. M. Barbour have been appointed a commission to enquire into the West | Indian sugar industry. Obituary — Earl Normanton. The rope attached to the mainmast of the sunken steamer Orotava broke, and the vessel has settled down in a worse position than before. Lisbon, Dec. 18. Reports have reached here that the British police in Manica, atributary to the Portuguese in South East Africa, have expelled tbe Portuguese lieutenant who was engaged in surveying a site for a military settlement. Capetown, Dec. 18. The attitude of some natives in Fort Salisbury has occasioned some anxiety, as. they decline to yield up land seized from tbe farmei'9 during the recent revolution. Madrid, Dec. 20. The Spanish Government are hastening the completion of warships, and the populace is greatly excited. General Polavicja succeeds General Blan:o as Governor. General of the Philippine Group, and 10,000 men have been sent to re-inforce the troops there. All spies arrested were shot. Bern-k, Dec. 10. A. Deucher, formerly Minister of Agriculture, has been elected President of the Swiss Confederation. Berlin, Dec. 18. The commission appointed with the object of securing commercial relations between Germany and China has started for Pekin. The Emperor expressed himself pleased at the resistance offered by the ; Hamburg employes to the uujust de mands of the employers. Cairo, Dec. 20. The Khalifa has increased the number of troops at Omdnrman and it is expected au active movement northwards will soon be undertaken. The wire is cut at Suakirn and Tokar. Rio Janiero, December 20. The Brazilian Government has refused to recognise Cuba as a belligerent.