TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4729, 22 August 1893, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

[BI MIXCTBIO T___GB_PH->COPrSIfIfB!T.] [Special to Pbess Association.] LONDON, August 21. Canada and Australia. The Premier of New South Wales has invited a Canadian delegation to vißit Australia about the middle of September. The invitation -will probably be accepted, and Mr M. Boweli, Minister for Trade and Commerce, will most likely be the chief delegate. H.M.S. Victoria's Successor. H.M.S. Hood, 14 guns, replaces the ill-fated warship Victoria on the Mediterranean station. PABIS, August 21. The French Elections. The results of eighty-Bix elections are known, and there will have to be second ballots in thirty six cases, including tbose of MM. Goblet, Locferoy, Floquet and Andrieux. MM. Brisson and Clemenceau bave been returned. M. Drummond was defeated. Latee. The results of 510 elections are known. The Eepublicanß liave returned 309 candidates; the Eadicals 14, and the Conservatives 44. The Republican gain so far is 46. EOME, August 21. France and Italy. Bioters have wrecked and burned French tramcars in Genoa and chased the officials. Further. attacks have been made on the French embassy in this city, and the windows were smashed. The police were powerless to quell the disturbance, and troops had to be called out to disperse the mob. SYDNEY, August 22. The New Hebrides. Letters from the New Hebrides state emphatically that a strong representation hii3 been made to the French Government to declare a protectorate over the group Within the past few months the Prencli Government has made a grant of jE15,00( to the French New Hebrides Trading Company with the view to promoting 3f>ttlement and to encourage trade. MELBOUKNE, August 22. The Victorian Bailways. The Eailway Commissioners report thai the railway revenue for the year shows i decrease of £165,000 as compared witl last year. The Mercantile Bank Cases. lit Panton, Magistrate, explains thai

m jftii(^if_^yrMn**_ja»_a*aj»m-_*a^^ the Minister for Jiibtioe refuted to order the istue of summonses against Sir M. Davies and Mr Milledge, on the grounds that no fresb evidence was forthcoming. .