TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7198, 5 February 1892, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

prisoned on a charge o£ espionage at St Etienne, appealed, and got bis sentence increased. MELBOURNE, Fbb. 6.

Victorian Statesmen.

Owing to the state of hia health, the Hon J. Service is unlikely to accept office again in any Ministry, and the Uon A. Daakin has announced that he finds himself unable to take any important part in

politics. Sculling.

SYDNEY, Feb. 5. Stanhury has agreed to row Sullivan for the championship and .£2OO or .£SOO a side.

\_bt electuw telegraph.— cop7right.} [Special to Pbkbs Association.] [Received Feb. 5. at 10.30 a.m.J LONDON, Feb. 4. Spurgeon's Funeral. The head of each religious denomination in England will be invited to the Rev C. H. Spurgeon's funeral. The tabernacle will be draped in black on the occasion. The Congregational , Union of England has expressed its sympathy with the Baptists in the incalculable loss they have suffered by Mr Spurgeon'a death. False Pretences. Mrs Osborne is expected to plead " Guilty *' to the charge of false pretences, and appeal for mercy; in which case it is believed Bhe may get off with a short term of imprisonment. i The Chicago Exhibition. The Standard urges the Government to increase the grant for the Chicago Exhibition, in the interest o£ trade. H.M.S. Victoria. * The lightening of H.M.S. Victoria is still proceeding ; the weather re- . mains favourable. Wo Parnellites in New Zealand. Mr Cox, the Irish delegate, says that there are no Parnellitee in New Zealand. * Lord Salisbury Critioised. Mr H. H. Fowler, speaking at Plymouth, characterised Lord Salisbury's Exeter Hall speech as the worst appeal to the basest passions and religious bigotry ever made by an English statesman. BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 4. The Persecuted Jews. The Russian Jews in the Argentine are discontented, and desire to return to Europe. It is reported that the Jewish colonies in Palestine are a failure. ST PETERSBURG, Feb. 4. The Famine in Russia. It ia alleged that officials of the Russian Eed Cross Society embezzled no lea ? than thirteen millions of roubles intended for the relief of the starving peasants. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Reciprocity. A Conference ia arranging between representatives of Canada and the United States, for the purpose of discussing reciprocity. An American Monte Carlo. An American Company, with a capital of two millions, has made arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines of Monte Carlo, in an island off the Mexican coast, near Vera Cruz. PARIS, Feb. 4. Queen Natalie. Queen Natalie has gone to Biaritz. The Liberal Party in Servia has invited her to ; return, and offers > I to support her claims if she does so.

Sentence Increased.

I Cooper, one of the Englishmen im.