CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 46, 6 October 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

GERMAN FRONTIER TROUBLE

DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. AMERICAN INTEREST IN SAMOA [By Klectric Telegraph.— Copyright.] T>EUTBB'S TEXK6HAMB.I London, October 3. -. .The Emperor of Germany has ordered : the release of M. Schnaebelle and the \ payment of compensation to the widow of the. gamekeeper shot oh the frontier. ; A demonstration, Attended by several thousand -working men, was held in Hyde Park to-day, to protest against the ays--tern of sugar bounties. Resolutions -were adopted, demanding the imposition of countervailing duties.' '■'■' | The report of the Bank of South Australia shows a profit ftn the - half year's transactions of L 25.300, and the Direc* tors recommended a/dividend of 6 per cent. During the period there has been a moderate diminution in advances. Mr Anderson Has resigned his seat on tfae' directorate of the Bank because the mission to open branches in the colonies has been postponed. At the anti- bounty demonstration held in Hyde Park to-day there was a numerous .attendance, ani the highest interest was manifested in the proceedings. It was urged by the speakers that the commerce and industry of- the colonies and the home country required that, counter* vailing duties should be imposed. It was stated that fully 50,000 sugar refiners were unemployed, "7" s October 5i Mir John Finch, head of "the Good | Templar Order, has died in America^ I ' Seventy ithree applications have been reoeived for the. position of Professor of Agriculture at the Adelaide Universe . itjr+jyTy''T'" '-.y.. . The Daily News condemns the grotes* que 'financial- proposals of Tasmania. - jThe Times urges the leading scientific-, societies to agitate for the Antarctic, expedition, and states if England is unable to' contribute money, for that object., she, is: able otherwise to materially assist the colonies,:/. . .y -„• .... ,- -, Y. j Bebijn, October 4. -Signor Grispi., 'ltalian Premier, left Fnettiichsruhe.yesteiday for Vienna. 7 It isj generally believed his visit to that, city is! for the purpose of haying an interview with Count Kalhbky, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs. y. New Yobk, October 3. |Mr Bayard; Secretary of States, in referring to tiie action of Germany in Samoa, expresses the opinion that interference on the part of the United States Government would be uiiwarranted, unless its interests in those islands were molested. ■'■'■ y. ,?-<vY- ■'. -Y;- AA '.y.y Sak FaANCisoe, October 2. The Union Company's steamship Mariposa, with the New Zealand September Homeward mails, arrived here at noon yesterday (Saturday), Calcutta. October 3. It is again reported from Afghanistan that the Ameer is seriously ill.