HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 225, 29 January 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND PAYS A DIVIDEND OF 5 PER CENT. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London. January 28. The Bank of NeAv Zealand has declared an interim dividend of five per cent. The s.B. Tekoa has sailed for Port Chalmers. Arrived The s.s. Otaraina (from Wellington, December 3). The National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand has declared a dividend of five per cent., and carried fon\\ard £2,300. A syndicate of leading firms propose acquiring Shiels and Elliot's automatic temperature regulator, in order to maintain the temperature of frozen beef at one degree, which it is believed would make Queensland beef equal to American chilled. Rome, January 27. The Italian Government will pay the French Government an indemnity of 300,000 francs for the recent Anti-French riots in Rome, Naples, and Genoa. Belgrade, J-mnary 27. King Alexander has granted an amnesty to the impeached Liberal Ministers and has forbidden the Radical Deputies not living in Belgrade, to remain in the capital. Pah is, January 27. It is reported that the French have seized Timbuctoo without firing a shot. Capetown, January 27. The Matabele have surrendered 8000 assegais. Washington', Jannary 27. Owing to a breach in the ranks of the Democratic Party, the prospects of defeating the new tariff are increasing.