CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5041, 29 August 1894, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams

m [BT BLECTEIO TMLnQBJLPB.-OOPTBJQET.I [Special to Pbess Association.] LONDON, August 28/g An Illegal Lottery. j Counsel advises that the Van j Diemen lottery is illegal in England, j and that the promoters must resort to • the Continent. I How Nice ! j The Bishop-elect of Wellington ! ; marries Miss "Williams in October. Cricket. i The Daily News regrets the absence ' of Jackson, Pa.airet, Gunn and Abel ' from Stoddart's team, which will not [ be a fully representative one. BERLIN, August 28. Bulgarian Affairs. M. Stambuloff, the deposed Premier of Bulgaria, has had an interview with a representative of the Frankfurter Zeitung, at which he made some remarkable statements. He declared that Prince Ferdinand would not be allowed to sacrifice Bulgaria to Russia merely to gratify personal vanity. He further declared that tbe Bussian Government had offered him five million roubles to depose Prince Ferdinand, but he had declined, as he preferred to be hanged in Bulgaria, to living in Bub. ia. A Young Idiot. M. S.ambouloff told an interviewer that Prince Ferdinand thinks chiefly of court uniforms and ceremonial observances. His Eussophile policy will be fatal to Bulgaria. Russia is now intriguing to substitute Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg for him. Prince Ferdinand tear_ a newspaper to pieces when he reads anything hostile to himself, and attempts to imitate the Kaiser. ■ j WASHINGTON, August 28. j United states Tariff. | The Tariff Bill became Jaw at mid- : night by effluxion of time, Tbe ; President declined to sign the : measure, though admitting tbat it \ was vastly superior to M'Kinley'a : Bill. He desires to see the free admission of raw materials, and will wage a further fight for tariff re- j forms. He states that the action \ of the Sugar Trust will never be ! forgotten in the United States. j BATAVIA, August 28. A Dutch Defeat. The native chieftain, Lamb ok, defeated the Dutch troops with considerable loss. One hundred and j sixty-four men were killed, including J General Vagham and fourteen other i officers. I PARIS, August 28. ! French Beverse at I Timbuctoo. Le Journal des Debais says it is ■ reported in Senegal that there has \ been three days' fighting at Timbuc- j too, and that two French companies ' have been destroyed. j MELBOURNE, August 29. -_)efeat of the Victorian j Ministry, j The Ministry has been defeated by 46 to ' 42. The Premier intends to ask for a ; dissolution. j BRISBANE, August 29. j The Queensland Labour J Party. I Mr Glassey has informed the Honse that ■ the Labour Party wonld remain inde- , pendent, and support measures from either j side of the Houbo for the good of the j country, PERTH, August 29. Gold! Gold! Gold! I During the last twelve months £234,000 worth of gold has been taken from Bailey's j I Reward mine at Coolgardie.