TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 118, 16 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

THE TASMANIAN AGENT- •, GENERAL s ARBITRATION J WRECK OF A TORPEDO BOAT t THE PRICE OF COLONIAL BUTTER * REDUCING THE ITALIAN ARMY. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ' (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, i v ovember 15. ] Sir Robert Herbert, who is acting as Agent-General for Tasmania, has applied to Lord Ripon, the Colonial Secretary, for a Royal commission in connection with the Tasmanian exhibition, and has j also asked for a grant to enable the for- . mation of loan for the collection of pic ( tures, t The mine owners and men have adopted Mr Gladstone's suggestion and ; have agreed to discuss matter under dispute at a conference to be presided over by Lord Roseberry. One of the Torpedo boats belonging to H. M.S. Rodney, of the Channel squadron, foundered near Gibraltar. She had been going at full speed and in the act of turning round capsized in a similar manner to the Victoria. Her crew saw what was going to happen, and leaping into the water were rescued by boats from the warships. The newspapers, criticising the Swaziland convention, denounce the transfer of the country to the Boers. A conference between the owners and the minors, under the presidency of Lord Roseberrv, will be held on Friday. The Directors of the Queensland In* vestment and Mortgage Company, in their annual report, state that, in view of the possibility of the non-renewal of some of the deposits, they intend to make a call of LI per share, In view of further calls being found necessary, the Directors will seek Parliamentary sanction to subdivide the capital permitting th 6 conversion of each share into fully paid up preference shares bearing 4£ accumulative interest. Washington, November 15. It is reported the United States Cabinet has endorsed the Fresident's proposals respecting Hawaii. A Democratic majority on the Committee of Ways and Means has decided to place silver, lead, and coal on the free list. Paris, November 15. The man who stabbed the Servian envoy is an Anarchist. The committee appointed to regulate the price of colonial butter comprises Messrs Trengrouse, Ooey, Cruickshanks, Ottz, Dottridgpj and Reynolds. Bebazin, King of Dahomey, is negotifor terms of submission. Madrid, November 15. Sixty Anarchists have been arrested at Barcelona and many bombs found. Rome, Kovember 15. King Humbert and Count Kalnoky, of Austria, meet at Mouza, a town of Lombard j, in Northern Italy, to discuss )he proposal to reduce the strength of the Italian army owing to the low state of the finances.