CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8164, 2 July 1895, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TBE GRACE TESTIMONIAL. Londov, Juno 30. Tho Da'thj Telegraph fund for the Grace testimonial amounts to live thousand shillings. THE LATEST COLONIAL BISHOP London, June 30. Tho Rev. A. Anderson was consectrated Bishop of Riverina by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's to-day

NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL AT WESTMINSTER. London, June 30. Cardinal Vaughan, assisted by the Archbishop of Armagh, laid tho foundation stone of the Catholic Cathedral at .Westminster. The cost will be £150,000 and the building is designed in the Byzantine style. The Archbishop predicted that the day is not far distant when England would renew her fidelity to the Pope.

WARSHIP FLOATED OFF. Copenhagen, June 30. Ihe Italian warship Sardenga', which went ashore in the Great Belt, is floated off. ABYSSINIA IN TROUBLE. St. Petersburg, June 30. Envoys have arrived at the Russian capital from the King of Abyssinia to appeal for protection against the Italians. THE IMPENDING WAR. Berlin, July 1. A remark made by the 'French Minister of War that a great war may break out at any moment has occasioned much surprise in Berlin. FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR. Pauls, July I.' The French advance in Madagascar is slow, owing to the enormous difficulty of obtaining supplies. Tho Hovas seldom fight, and appear to decoy the French onward. AN AUSTRALIAN YACHT. . New York, July 1, The ya.iht to- represent. Australia in the contest for the American Cup stuck while being launched, and up to the present all efforts to release her have been fruitless.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Adelaide, July 1. Tao rovonuo foi* tho quarter shows a decrease of £42,000 and for tho vear of £102,000 compared with last year. ' - ■" SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT. Sydney, July 1. The ship Argus., from London reports that during a heavy gale on May 27 th Kelly, tho third officer, was washed overboard. The chief officer, who was a cousin of Kelly, with McFindlay, McDonald and Robertson, seamen, and Lindsay, steward, gallantly volunteored and launched a boat to rescue Kelly. They managed to pick up tho officer and had almost reached the ship on return when aj tremendous sea swamped tho boat and all.tho crew were drowned.