TO-DAY'S CABLES

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 30 August 1905, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES

An Enormous Failure. Telegraph Press Association. Copyright Received August 80, 9 24 a m. Paris, August 29 M. Crosnier, chairman of the Sugar Refinery Company, speculat ing as a rival of Jaluzot, who recently failed and committed suicide, anticipating at the settlement of losses of two million sterling, but an exceptionally good beetroot crop upset his calculations. Crosmer's failure involves eight million sterling, chiefly with the large banks. Railway Fatality. London, August 29. Owing to the fainting of the engine-driver of a pleasure railway on Isle of Man, the train was wrecked and a dozen persons badly injured. Morocco Affairs. Paris, August 29. It is stated in the Parisian newspapers that the French Minister, failing to induce the Sultan to release the Algerian, has been ordered to leave Fez. Coming Eclipse of the Sun. Madrid, August 29. King Alfonso joined the astronomers from many stations at Burgos to witness the total eclipse of the sun. Several observatories are established at Algeria and Les Palmas. Old Age Pensions. Sydney, This Day. The Auditor General's report, after showing an increase in the amount paid for old age pensions, states that official experience does not confirm the anticipation that there would be a decrease in the expenditure for benevolent asylums and adult poor relief -in fact— the expenditure in these directions had increased. Swimming Championship. London, August 29. Kieran won the 500 yards swimming match at Leeds in 6m in 7sec. Ladysmith's Battleffelds. Capetown, August 29. The British Association was feted at Maritzburg and La3ysmith, whore they visited the battlefield. Murders by Chinese Deserters. Capetown, August 29. Chinese deserters from the Rand murdered a Chinese trader whose store was near Krugersdorp and raided it. Some of the marauding bands are still uncaptured. Steamer Founders with Loss of Life. New York, August 29. Advices from Jacksonville, in Florida, state that the steamship Peconic foundered in a storm, when 20 persona were drowned, only 2 being saved.