CITY EDITION. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6123, 9 March 1898, Page 3

CITY EDITION. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association— By Electric TelegraphCopyright. Beceived March 8, 9 p.m. : BILLIARDS. LONDON, March 7. Dawaon, who stands third on the list of English billiard players, has arranged a match with "Weiss, the Australian champion, to be played on March 28, eighteen thousand up, Weiss receiving ten thousand. The state will be £100 a side. Beceived March 8, 10 p.m. OBITUARY. The death of Edmund Tatteraall, head of the great, firm of horse auctioneers and proprietor of the famous sporting room at ICnigbtsbridge, is announced. !^^ CURE FOR SNAKEBITE. Dr Calmette, of Saigon, a pupil of M. Pasteur, has discovered a cure for snakebite, by means of bichloride of gold. SERIOUSLY ILL. VIENNA, March 1. Princess Stephanie, widow of the Crown Prince of Austria, is suffering from inflammation of the lungs, and s in a critical condition. Beceived March 9, 9.50 a.m. UNITED STATES DEBENTURES. WASHINGTON, Makch 8. The Senate has referred to the Appropriations Committee a Bill for entrusting the President with fifty million dollars' worth of national debentures, which are to be available for issue until June, 1899. OBITUARY. LONDON, Mabch 8. Sir G-eorge Russell, M.P. for the Wokingham Division of Berkshire, is dead, aged seventy. ROMAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. In the course of an interview, the Archbishop of Canterbury stated; that, in common with a large majority of the bishops and' clergy, he earnestly desired the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland. Beceived March 9. 10.10 sum. THE ORLANDO. H.M.S. Orlando has reached Singapore. She has been ordered Home.