GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2581, 6 August 1895, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Association. — Copyright. : THE SITUATION IN (ENGLAND.' ■ i r. ;"• : London,;,August 4.,>,: e Mr Chamberlain, Seoretaty .of State for the Colonies, in an'address to a meeting in' Birmingham, said 1 the Conservative and Unionist was formed at a time of national danger, and that tho recent political crisis had coraeuted it. Through a decade, by mutual sacrifice and common action, jit had resisted its foes, and the third election had, confirmed; it in a way; unequalled in the history of coalitions. • THE NEWFOUNDLAND BANK , V-,. SCANDAL. ; St. John’s, August 4. . . Intense excitement has ,'hben caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that four directors of the Union Bank overdrew 2,500,000 dollars, representing' nearly the whole of the amount overdrawn. AN ANARCHIST BLOWN TO 'PIECES. Pahis, August 4. During festivities at Douai in honour of M. Veuillemin, manager of the" mines, an Anarchist wounded him with a revolver; and prepared to throw a bomb. ■ • : Tho explosion,' fortunately, was premature, and the assassin himself was blown to atoms. , Ton other persons, however, were , wounded. , ’ ■ : ~!;■ . Received August 6,, 0.50 aim. .. ■■■ ■.(."Paris, August 5. The Douai Anarchist was a miner“who had been dismissed. ; J THE SITUATION IN BULGARIA. i' '! , , .Sofia, August 4. The organ of the Zaiikoff.Party at Sofia urges Prince Ferdinand to abdicate in favour of Prinoa George ,of Greece. . ' . Thodolegates ivho- went on ,thb mission' to Russia received an ovation bn their return.; ; : ■_ .... 1 i. Archbishop ' Clement .addressed the' crowd, dwelling on tho community of intorests between Bulgaria aqd Russia. Received August 0, 0.50 a.ni. Sofia, August 5. , M, Matakioff is still alive. ■ AN ITALIAN BANK'FAILURE. . )", ; , •; ' , Bomb, August 4. '“’Tjirged Bros,, bankers, of Genoa, have failed for 30,000,000; dire :; (Sver 25700,000). JWiitrants have been issued [for the arrest oi the principals, ’■.; • . 6 , ■. London, August 4. -.) OjiThe Geographical Gpngi’oss will; hold its' next mooting at Borlin in, 1899." • ; The Prince of Wales yesterday opened at Southampton the now graving, dock,’which is tlio largest in tho world. •The iQneen has invested SirT. Powell Buxton,[theT new Governor of South Austra-' lia, with the Order of St. Michael and St. George at Windsor; ■ : The Court of Queen’s Bench has decided that ,tho executors of Mrs i Francis Tolled' macho are not liable for probate, duty ih‘ England on the .£112,00,0 invested in New Zealand upon which duty was paid in that colony. , ■ ... ,

■ • The United Counties Cricket Council has approved the visit of tho Australian Eleven next year. The number of test matches is to bo limited to three;