CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5325, 1 August 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[BF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.-] i [Special to Pbhbb Association.] ASSAULT. LONDON, July 31. Lord Wodehouse, sou of the Earl of Kimberley, who, while resenting | some remarks made by the chairman of an election meeting at North Walsham, pulled him off the platform ] and offered to fight him, has been ! fined £5 for assault. I SENTENCES FOE FORGERY. The trial of those charged with forging letters of credit on Coutts' | Bank ended to-day. Beaumont was i sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, | Pleydell to eight yearß and Carr to six | yearn. In passing sentence the judge • said that the forgery was a remarkably ! clever and dangerous part of ah interI national scheme. BECHUAN ALAND. Replying to a communication from I the Secretary of State for the coloniea, ; the Government of Cape Colony states | that it is not proposed to alter the | existing law in Bechnanaland with : respect to land, the sale of liquor and native jurisdiction, without the Imperial consent. THE SPEAKERSHIP. The Pall Mall Gazette asserts that < the Government will not oppose the re-election of Mr Gully as Speaker. A LANDSLIP. Enormous damage has been caused ; atMontreux, near the Lake of Geneva, I by the collapse of a bank. ! AFRICAN INTERESTS. ROME, July 81. It is unofficially stated that Great Britain and Italy have concluded a treaty for united action in Africa. The two countries are to exert joint influence over Kassala and Leilah. MACEDONIA. SOFIA, July 81. The Turks have recaptured Menlik, taken by the Macedonians, and are gradually repressing the insurgents. Reports have been received that the rebellion in Macedonia has failed. The Turks systematically stopped the supplies of food and water, by which meaDß the hillmen were compelled to descend to the valleys and fight in the open, where the larger proportion of them were routed. A section of the insurgents, however, succeeded in reorganising. RUSSIAN DESIGNS. ST PETERSBURG, July 81. The Novosti urges that the alliance of Russia with Abyssinia will easily secure a coaling station in the Red Sea, and prevent its domination by the English. France must increase her fleet in the Indian Ocean, and Russia in the Mediterranean. Massowah : must be converted into a joint harbour, and the Italians ejected. RIOTING IN LISBON. LISBON, July 31. The local Press accused the Jesuits of stealing children, and an infuriated mob took possession of the streets and brutally attacked and wounded any priests they caught. The riot was only quelled by calling out the troops. THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY. "WASHINGTON, July 31. President Cleveland suggests that the Democratic Party should select Mr Bayard as his successor.