CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 70, 10 December 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

1 ». (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 7. The Scottish deposits in the Standard Bank amouut to £200,000, the owners being chiefly residents of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The liondon directors profess the utmost confidence in the stability of the institution, and have received many assurances of support both from the depositors and shareholders. The Farmers' Clubs of the United Kingdom are forming a federation to protect themselves against the demands of the labourers. The commercial treaties entered into by the countries of the Triple Alliance will effect a reduction in the corn duties. America, Canada, and India will benefit by protection being modified, and English business in German markets wUI probably increase. In the course of an address, Mr Mor* ley said he was an adherent of a gradu* ated system of taxation on the basis of equality. The Times suggests that Australia should create a local public debt, and the Financial Times advocates the same step. The charge brought by M- Martus against his wife, Florence St. John, involve Mr Arthur Cohen, Financial Journalist. Sir Charles Russell appears for the petitioner, who admitted that before her marriage she was Marius' mistress, but denies that she has been guilty of adultery with Cohen. Commenting on the engagement of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale to Princess Victoria of Teck, The Times expresses the hope that the Queen will be able to lay her hand on the head of a child who will wear the. Crown of England to the third in descent from herself. The Socialistic and Democratic Federation has passed a resolution condemning the action of the police in dispersing the meeting.of Socialists at Chelsea. It was also decided to continue the exercise of free speech, to maintain the families of the men who hare been convicted on charges of obstruction or of unlawful assembly, and to petition for the removal of Sir P. K. Edlir, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, before whom the men were tried, from the Bench. December 8. The Princess Victoria of Teck, on re* turning to London, received a warm public greeting. The Queen visited Marlborough House to congratulate the young people. The interval before the marriage takes place will only be a short one. St. I'ktkrsburg, December 8. An Imperial lottery of six million roubles has been started for the relief of the famine.