HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 213, 13 January 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MILITARY COMMISSIONS. EXPLOSION OF A BOMB. | Per Press Association.] London, January 12 It is expected that the Parish Councils Bill will be read a third time iv the I House of Commons to-night, after which an adjournment will be made for a mouth. The War Office refuses^ tp grant commissions to Australians in the Imperial Artillery and Engineers until a Military College for Australia has been established, similar to that at Kingston iv Canada. A Dalziel's* telegram reports that a bomb exploded in New York, shattering a tenement building. Several other bombs have been found in the vicinity. The Bank of Now Zealand has decided not to issue the new capital. With the view of regulatrn^ tl c market, it has been suggested that cold storage should be provided for butter in the same way that Nelson Bros, store meat. It is believe.! that this system would prevent the heavy losses that now occur. The barque Alastor, from Lyttelton to London, which put into Valparaiso on August 3rd, to repair damage sustained in a heavy gale, has amved. The election for the vacant seat for Horncastle, caused by the death of the Hon Edward Stanhope, took place today, and resulted in the return of Willoughby Deresby, Conservative, by a majority of 1.38 votes over Mr Joren, a Home Rule candidate. The contest was most exciting. The Government are being urged to sell a part of their Suez Canal shares, and to devote the proceeds to the construction of additional warships. It is stated differences have arisen among the members of the Cabinet about the extent of increasing the navy. Antwkhp. Janunry 12. The Jesuit College has been destroyed by tire. The damage is estimated at a million francs. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary. Washington, January 12. It is reported that the United States representative at Honolulu has been ordered to censure the proceedings of the Provisional Government, but to remain inactive, pending the final decision of Congress. Pabis, Janunry 12. Vaillaut has decided to appeal against the death seatence.