LATEST INTELLIGENCE CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10331, 12 June 1895, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE CABLE MESSAGES.

By Electric Telegraph — United Press Astoelation Copyright — Received lSjdjSS — 3.90 p.m.

COLONIAL YOUTHS AT CAMBRIDGE. London, June 11. Godfrey WilsoD, formerly a scholar at Melbourne Grammar School, is fifth on tho list of Wranglers at Cambridge. A MAGNIFICENT GIFT. Mr Potherick, a well known publisher, has offered his library, containing six thousand rare colonial books, to the Federal Council of Australasia ns the nucleus of a Federal Library, on condition that it appointed a librarian. The donor desires to soe tho b">oks placed temporarily in the Lnporial Institute. GLADSTONE GOES TO KIEL. Mr Gladstone leaves to-day to attend the oponing of the Kiel canal. FBANOO-RUSSIAN TREATY. Paris, June 11. The Parisian Press declare that the terms of the Franco-Russian treaty will be published after the fetes at the open j Ing of the Kiel canal. It is Reported that it embodies a military convention, j Gauloue states that China will allow France to occupy a port in the Piscadorea, and perhaps the whole of the group, the inhabitants of which are given to assisting the Tonquin pirates. MINE EXPLOSION. Bbiilin, June 11. All in the collierie3 were saved except fifteen, whom tho rescue party found to be hemmed in by a wall of fire, and reluctantly had to abandon them to their fate. RUSSIA ACQUIRING COALING STATIONS. Copenhagen, June 11. Russia being desirous to obtain a coaling station in the Baltic, is negotiating with Denmark for cession of the Ohristiano Group, three small islands twelve miles from the large island of Bonnholm. MISSION STATIONS LOOTED. Shasgai, June 11. The foreign mission stations at Cbington, Raiting, and Nochu have been looted, tho Viceroy heir refusing to protect them until too late. The missionaries believed they were safe.