LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 July 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

[Per Press Association.]

The Bisley Meeting. Received this day at 8 47 a m. London July 21, Lord Roberts in distributing the prizes won at Bisley said that the South African war had shown the necessity for good shooting and the exhibition of individual intelligence since soldiers were compelled to fight in very extended order. The Boiler Test Baoe. The warship Minerva beat the Hyacinth in the boiler test race from Gibralter to Portsmouth. The Decision of the Vatican, Rohe, July 21. The Vatican while condemning the Religious Association Law recently passed in Prance, allows noh-recognised religious orders to apply for authorisation submitting only a synopsis of their statutes. Paris, July 21. The French newspapers declare that pious frauds will not deceive the Minister for Worship. An all English Cable. London, July 21. The Inter-departmental committee is considering the question of laying a cable from Cocos Islands to Ceylon, connecting with the Cape and Australian linos, and thus securing all the British route to India. The Yorka. The gunboat Thrush meets the Ophir and Hoyal party at Durban. Received this day at 9 11 a.m. The Exhibition Scholarship. London, July 21. Owing to the excellent work done by Bertram Steele, of Melbourne, and Joseph Mellor, of New Zealand, who are studying at Breslau and Mac Chester respectively, the commissioners of the 1851 exhibition have renewed the scholarships for a third year.