Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, 20 June 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

. — «~ Messrs Fairfax, following the example of the Melbourne Argus, are about to reduce the price the pried of the Sydney Morning Herald to Id. The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney jiid, the Australian Jpirit Stock Bank reopened yesterday. The Banks of Victoria and the City of Melbourne also re opened yesterday. Princess May will have ten bridesmaids, chosen from among the princesses oftheKoyal Family.. The Government to not intend to proclaim a public holiday on the date of the wedding of the Duke of York tUd Princess May. The recognition of the colonial title of ' honorable ' throughout the British Empire *» Gatetted. New* has been received that a French escort, while^ conducting a Siamese Mandarin prisoner across the Mekong Biver, was massacred by the Siamese, at the instance of the Mandarin. The French press demands that a punitive expedition shall be despatched at once. Twenty officers and soldiers, were killed in Athens, by ft gunpowder explosion in IheeUy. , Mr Black, of Queensland, giving evideaiee before Lord Onslow's Committee, Mated that Queensland did not object {9 frozen meat being marked if the process did sot disfigure the carcases. Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent General for New Zealand, in his evidence, said that American competition would retard the expansion ot the New Zealand beef trade, and if the Australian mutton trade were developed it would be necessary for New Zealand to adopt a system of marking the carcases exported . from her shores.' Shippers objected to the proposal, though growers favoured it, believing that it would enhanced' the value of ;the meat. Mr Weddell declared that marking would harass the trade unless the system were generally adopted. » ....•.., '__