CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 2087, 22 February 1896, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BTOME AND FOSElas [PRESS ASSOCIATION THLBQ'RjfIIS, J London,

A German White Book contains a dispatch from Baron Marschall Y o Bieberstein, Secretary for the Interior, tc Count Yon Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, Ambassador in London, stating that the interests of Germany required that the autonomy of the Transvaal should be maintained and the terms of the treaty of 1884 as regards the port of Delagoa adhered to. It is further stated that a commercial union of the African States would be injurious to Germany. It has been discovered that President Kruger was, oh 24th December, taking precautions to cope with any raid that might be made and that the German Consul at Pretoria was authorised on 31st December to summon 50 marines from the warship Adler to protect the consulate. The American press and statesmen are decidedly friendlier to Britain. A necklace, worth £4OOO, the gift >. of King Humbert, of Italy, to Princess Letitia, was stolen, and has since been sold in Prance. The meteoric fragments on Monday caused fires iu Madrid, Burgos, and Valencia. The Armenians in revolt in Zietoun have submitted. A revolt has broken out in Seoul, the capital of Corea, and the King and Crown Prince have sought refuge at the Russian Legation. The Premier and seven officials have been murdered. Three hundred men have been landed from a Russian warship to guard the Legation. The quantify of wheat ’ and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is equal to 2.716,000 quarters, and for the Continent 705,000. The estimated American visible sup- ’ , ply of wheat is 96,500,000 bushels. > The South Australian 3 per cent ; loan is assured of floatation at 96. , Brazil has decided to compensate the families of the Italians killed dur- • ing the civil war of 1893. ! Major Jameson, M,P. for the West \ Clare, by way of amendment on the I Address-in-reply, moved that the . claims on the Christian Brothers’ Roman Catholic schools should be considered, but on Mr Gerald Balfour, . Chief Secretary for Ireland, stating : that the Government expected to pass | a bill this session to meet the difficulty ‘ it was withdrawn. The Address-in-* » reply has been adopted without amendi ment. 1 In the House of Commons the | Right Hon. C N Curzon, TJnder-Sec- ’ . retary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to r a question, stated that the rumour \ that a British Guard had been landed | at Chemulpo, Corea, was disbelieved, r as was also the statement that the i Rusriana were occupying the same i place. • • ; Dr Jameson and the Imperial of- v fleers associated with him in his recent j invasion pf the Transvaal will be tried t by court martial immediately. They were formerly arrested at Malta. , Mr Hogan has introduced a bill, in . the House of Commons to legitimise I (in England) the children of marriage ( in the colonies with a deceased wife’s ! sister.