Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5168, 29 January 1895, Page 3

Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

I"** MLECTRIO TJTL-GiUPH-COPrEr-fla',] [Spbcial to Pribb Association.J THE " FINANCIAL NEWS" ON NEW SOUTH WALES. LONDON, Jan: 28. The Financial News congratulates New South Wales on securing the services of Mr Eddy for a further term , and, referring to the colony generally, considers it has a bright prospect in the future. IMPERIAL DEFENCE. The Morning Post trusts* tbat the conference of Premiers at Hobart, will discuss the question of contributing to the cost of Imperial defence. OBITUARY. Professor Caley, mathematician of Cambridge University, is dead. A DENIAL. Mr J. F. O'Brien, M.P., declares that it is not trae that he accepted money from Lord Tweedmouth for any purpose, and complains that he was incorrectly reported. SIR ROLAND WILLIAMS. The Times condemns the proposal to remove Sir Roland Williams from the Bankruptcy Division of the High Court of Justice when dealing with matters affecting the winding up of public companies. It eulogises his fearless conduct towards directors, and regards the proposal of the Lord High Chancellor as scandalous. THE LATE M. DE G-IERS. ST PETERSBURG, Jan. 28. The cause of M.. de Criers' death was heart disease, complicated by inflammation of the lungs. It is not believed that his death will cause any change in Russia's foreign policy. CHINA AND JAPAN. TOKIO, Jan. 22. The Japanese have declined the offer of a Tartar chief to furnish sixty thousand men to capture Moukden, in revenge for the cruelties practised by the Chinese soldiery on the inhabitants of Manchuria. THE ARMEINIAN QUESTION. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 28. The Sultan is reported' to be incensed at Lord Kimberley refusing to arrest members of Armenian societies in England. THE KAISER. ' ■ '■'.'■''• BERLIN, Jan. 28. The Kaiser has issued an emotional, manifesto to the army respecting the anniversary of the franco- German war. The decoration of Berlin and other observances are ordered. THE POPE AND THE PRESS. ■i . NEW YORK, Jan. 28. The Pope, in an encyclical, directs the United States Roman Catholic Bishops to teach Pressmen to respect religion and truth. THE UNITED STATES AND HAWAII. The Senate, by a majority of two, endorsed the President's Hawaiian policy, urging the States to keep aloof from any foreign entanglement.