Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 115, 18 March 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

The debenture holder* of the Welling ton Manawatu Railway Company, in London, complain of the non -exemption of their debentures from the operation of the new taxation in New Zealand as a breach ot agreement by the Government The Wellington and Manawatu Kailway Company's debentures have fallen L 4 American capitalists nre investing two millions in a railway from Lake Winnipeg to Lake Superior. A parly of Australian miners i< exploit ing a rich gold discovery in Ecuador. The ship Mornysbire, from Java fo Vancouver, has been wrecked, with, the loss of all hands. Mr H Catnpbell-Banncrman, Secretary of Stati> for War, replying to a question in tke House of Commons, said that the occupation of Egypt by Gnat Britain cost L 87.000 per annum, but this sum did not include the outlay incurred in concection with the recent reinforce ments. The Moslems ore rising in Armenia and murdering Christians. As Ccsarea three Churches were gutted. The New Zealand Snipping Company's steamer Kaikoara will take to Wellington a sample consignment ot English fresh fish preferred by a new process. Further consignments frill follow to other New Zealand ports. The Official .Receiver of the House and Land Investment Trust Company (one of Mr J. Spencer Balfour's companies which suspended payment some months ago) estimates that when the assets arc realised tuero will be a deficiency of a million and a half sterling- ---^