CITY EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5282, 12 June 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION.

Latest Telegrams - — ♦- — . BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

IBT EhVOTRIO TXLBQRAPH—COPYBWHT.I [Special to Pbbss Association.] THE GRACE TESTIMONIAL. LONDON, June 11. The Marylebone Cricket Club has undertaken the management of the national testimonial to Dr W. G. Grace.

A MELBOURNE WRANGLER. Mr Godfrey Wilson, formerly a scholar at the Melbourne Grammar School, is fifth ou the list of wrang- i lers at Cambridge. !

A FEDERAL LIBRARY. Mr Petherick, the well-known publisher, has offered his library, containing six thousand rare colonial books, to the Federal Council of Australasia, as the nucleus of a Federal Library, on condition that he is appointed librarian. The donor desires to see the booka placed temporarily in i the Imperial Institute. I

MR GLADSTONE. i Mr Gladstone leaves today to attend the opening of the Kiel canal i MISSIONARY PERIL. ; SHANGHAI, June 11. j A portion of the mission stations i at Chingtu, Kaiting and Nocbu were looted. Viceroy Lin refused to pro- ', tect them until too late. The mis- I sionaries are believed to be safe.

RUSSIA IN THE BALTIC COPENHAGEN, Junk 11. Russia, being desirous of obtaining a coaling station in the Baltic, is negotiating with Denmark for the cession of Christianso, a group of three small islands twelve miles from the large ipland of Bornliolm.

! THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ! TREATY. I PARIS, June 11. The Parisian Press declares that the terms of the Franco-Russian treaty will be published after the fetes at the opening of the Kiel canal. It is reported to embody a military convention.

THE PESCADORES. The Gaulois states that China will allow France to occupy a port in the Pescadores, and perhaps the whole of the group, the inhabitants of which are given to assisting Tonquin pirates.

, THE HON J. G- WARD. ! OTTAWA, Junb 10. The Hon J. Or. Ward will interview Sir Mackenzie Bowell, the Premier, and the Hou G-. E. Foster, Minister of Finance, with reference to Canadian and New Zealand trade, and the Pacific cable.

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. I ROME, June 11. ! In the speech from the throne, at the opening of Parliament King Humbert said that the Government intended to introduce legislation ■ during the , session to reach wrongdoers in high places, and inflict the same punishment as was meted out to

those in lower circles. They were determined to inculcate the principle of fraternity, beginning in the schools. He desired that the chief glory of his reign should be to ameliorate the condition of the poor, and he hoped the people and Parliament would associate themselves with the happines* of his own family. King Humbert went on to say, "" Europe breathes peace and suspects Italy no j longer."