CABLEGRAMS.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 164, 18 July 1896, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

' BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Lonl'on, July 15. ' Tho Czar will pay tho visit to the Queen next summer. ?.' Tho Queon will treat Li Hung Chang as a Stato guost. ' Great heat continues to be felt in London and provinces, and many deaths havo been recorded. The Navy Leaguo have communicated with nil colonial municipalities, asking them to colebntto tho anuivorsury of tho battle of Trafalgar. Dr Benson, Primate of England, considers tho Pope's encyclical . contrary to doctrine and English history. Stanbury has issued a challenge to Gaudaur, of America, to row for tho championship of the world and £1000 aside, cither on the Thames or on the Parramalta. It is reported that Gaudaur is willing to row at Vancouver in September. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, has boen seized with a stroko of paralysis, but i.s likely to recover. Athens, July 15. The Turks, ignoring the lerms of armistice, are occupying French positions in Crete. Paris, July 15. A dismissed municipal official fired two shots at President Faure, neither of which fortunately took elTect. The wouldbe assassin narrowly escaped being lynched by tho indignant crowd. Ou being arrested he declared that tho revolver only contained blank cartridges, and that he merely wished to draw attention to th' grievances he belived he had against tho Government. M. Faure remained quito calm throughout tho trying experienco, aud recoived a great ovation. The prisoner, who is believed to be insane, had previously been expelled from the Chamber of Deputies for throwing pamphlets to members, 1 President Fanre unveiled the statue of Joan of Arc to-day, at llhoims, amid great I enthusiasm. I Pretoria, July 15. ! The spread of rinderpest in .British Bechuanaland is alarming settlers there. I Madrid, July 15. ' By means of electric wires the Cuban insurgents caused an explosion on a train carrying Spanish soldiers there. Many were killed.