CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5191, 25 February 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ILBCTRIO TBLBGU4PH--00PrBIGHT,1 fSpECIAL TO pBKBB ASSOCIATION.] WHOLESALE EXTRAVAGANCE. LONDON, Fbb. 23. A young man, Tasker, who has just come into a fortune of seven hundred thousand pounds, is suing Messrs Streeter and Co., the well-known jewellers, for Jewellery to the value of £17,000 bought and not delivered. Daring the hearing it came out that Taeker had purchased articles to the value of .£87,000 in a few weeks', Feb. 24. Tasker's purchases included the famous Agra diamond, for which he gave .815,000 and seven others, the cost of which was .£30,000. He also gave ,£30,000 for the Hope diamond. Streeter and Co. deny that certain of the purchases claimed by Tasker were ever made. j SIR H. B. LOCH. ! i Sir H. Loch informed the Cape Government that he intended to retire. Ho took this step with the ; deepest; regret, as he had passed some ! of the most eventful years of his life lin South Africa. He expressed his gratification at the energy and enter* prise of the Chartered Company. The Press was misled as to the details of Ms resignation, owing to the terms of the minute of the Cape Government. Sir .Hercules Robinson is mentioned as his successor. ■ • BILLIARDS. A billiard match, in which a good deal of interest centred, was finished yesterday. Roberts gave Mitchell 9000 out of 24,000, and, after an exciting finish, beat him by the narrow margin of thirty-one points. A NEW COLLIERY COMPANY. The Sydney Harbour Collieries Company has been formed, to work the recent find, of coal on the north side of the harbour, with a capital of £500,000. Thirty-four thousand .£lO 7 per cent preference shares will be issued on Tuesday week. Sir George Dibbs will be chairman of the Australian Board. CAPTAIN HUNTER BLAIR. Captain Hunter Blair has been lelected for the adjutancy of the Third Gordon Highlanders. THE PRINCE QF WALES. The Prince of Wales has gone to he Riviera district for the sake of lis health. He is suffering from the effects of a severe chill. LORD BRABSEY. Lord Brassey sails for Melbourne n the Sunbeam in Jnly. THE UNITED STATES LOAN. London financiers subscribed one mndred and twenty million dollars or the United States loan of sixtywo and a half million dollars. ' j INFLUENZA. ' Influenza is raging in a virulent arm. 21&ny members of both : louses and of the Judicial Bench are J ffacted. A number of deaths in the working classes are recorded. i ENGLAND AND FRANCE. \ PARIS, Feb. 23. ! The Marquis of Dufferin, address* \ ng the British Chamber of Commerce d Paris, said that the relations ' letween England and France were lever more friendly than they were A the present time. There was no eason for anybody to quarrel about Africa, which he considered was a loubtf ul commercial El Dorado. . THE GERMAN FLEET. BERLIN, Pbb. 23. The Budgot Committee of the ieichstug has agreed to a vote of levea million marks to begin the sonstruction of four new cruisers, but -ejected a similar proposal in regard io torpedo vessels. BIMETALLISM. A commercial congress has passed i resolution condemning the' motion idopted by the Reichstag in favour )f bi-metallism, and adding that it is Imperative that tho German nation jhould not meddle with the currency it present in force. AN IMPERIAL UTTERANCE. BERLIN, Feb. 24. The Eaiser, addressing the Branden burgers, dwelt on the thorny nature of his office, and ridiculed Utopian Bchemes. No class, he said, could claim special privileges at the cost of others. THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON. ST PETERSBURG, Feb. 22. The Russian Mediterranean squadron has been ordered to join the Pacific squadron. A TREACHEROUS ATTACK. CAPETOWN, IW 24.. Hostile natives, under the guise of being friendly, penetrated the Portuguese lines at Lorenzo Marquez, on the north Bide of Delagoa Bay. An attack was made at night, and resulted in the loss of fifty men on the Portuguese side. The -fatalities would have been very much heavier but for the gallantry of a lieutenant, who, though transfixed by an assegai gave the alarm and enabled the met to offer some sort of defence, i A SPLENDID DIAMOND. , ! - PRETORIA, Feb. 24. *' [■■ President Kruger has presented the Pope with a diamond weighing 971 carats, said to have no equal in ' bhe world. [Tho Koh-i-noor; is said to have weighed 900 carats uncut.] ' (