CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5334, 12 August 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[b? slbotbio talmqrapb—ooptrwbt.] [Special to Pbssb Association.] SETTLED. LONDON, August 10. The Cowley slander ease has been settled privately. COMMITTED FOR TKIAL. Lady Francis Gaming has been committed for trial on a charge of forging her father's name to bills of exchange. She has admitted the offence. ELECTION. August 11. Sir Leonard Lyell has been re elected for Orkney by a majority of 781. [At the election of 1892 Sir L. Lyell, who ia a Liberal, was returned by a majority of 1006.1 IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. The British imports and exports for the past six months exceeded those for the corresponding period of 1894 by 10 per cent. GOLDSBROUGH AND CO. Mr Mitchell does not expect thai the shareholders in Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. will obtain above 3 per cent profit for some years, bat he trusts that the revival of confidence in the company will prevent the necessity for further redaction in the capital. THE SALVATION ARMY, General Booth has sailed for Africa and Australia, THE GENERAL ELECTION. The Orkney return completes the general election. The strength of parties is — Conservatives 339, Unionists 72, Liberals 179, anti-Parnellists 70. Parnellites 12. YACHTING. The Sholde won the Australian Cup at Cowes ; Caress second. Lord Lonsdale's Verena won the Emperor's Cup, and the Prince of Wales' Britannia won the Meteor Shield. THE KAISER. The Kaiser is the guest of Lord Lonsdale, at Lowther Castle, for grouse shooting. CHITRAL. The proposal of the Indian Government for holding Chitral has been agreed to by the Imperial Government. The British, will garrison the country between the . Chitral and Kala Daroab, and a garrison will be stationed tft Chakdarra. The Panjkora route will be kept open for postal and relief purposes. VICTORIAN WINE. Mr G. P. Morris stated that he cannot advise the opening of a Victorian wine depot in London at present. AUSTRALIAN SMELTING COMPANY. Shares in the Australian Smelting Company are being allotted. SAMOA. BERLIN, August 10. The German Prefls professes to be scandalised at the Powers upholding the agreement which is producing a state of anarchy in Samoa, and urges that if the treaty is not cancelled the natives ought to be disarmed. THE PACIFIC CABLE. VANCOUVER, August 10. It is reported here that Mr J. W. Mackay, director of the CanadianPacific Railway Company, and a number of San Francisco capitalists, will cooperate to lay the Pacific cable. THE MACEDONIAN REVOLT. SOFIA, August 11. In an engagement between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents at Kustendil, the former we™ victorious and the latter lost two hundred killed. BULGARIA. It is reported that Tufekeacheff, who was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Stambouloff, has been liberated. ITALIAN BEFORE. SOME, August 11. The Correctional Tribunal declares that the judicial courts are incompetent to deal with Signor Cavalotte's charges against Signor Crispi.