CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 97, 13 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PER UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 10. It was stated at the Bank of New Zealand meeting that £20,000 was expec'.cd to be carried over to the next year. The Chairman said the new taxa» tion in New Zealand did not affect the j Bank, though it would considerably affect the Estates Company. The Bank was reducing the advances in Australia, believing il to be risky in the present state of affairs there. The Standard asserts that the fall in colonial stock is due to the failures in Melbourne and Brisbane. Heavy sales of colonial stock are being effected, and (here is a general fall of 10k. The issue of Treasury Bills is the chief cause of the depression. Four services in memory of the late Eev C. H. Spurgeon were held in the Tabernacle. Canon Fleming. Sankey, the evangelist, Rev Mr McLaren, and many of the lending Dissenters were present. " February 11, The Right Hon Sir James Caird, the eminent agricultural authority, setat 76, is dead. Njbw Yobk, February 11. It is rumoured that Secretary Blame is intriguing to obtain General Harrison's defeat for the Presidency. Beblin, February 10. The Empress of Germany is suffering from influenza.