HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 230, 3 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

OUTRAGES IN SOUTH AFRICA. GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT. REPRESSING THE ANARCHISTS. THE RECONSTRUCTED BANKS, LOAN AND MERCANTILE COMPANY. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 1. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that Russia has guaranteed the security of the Indian frontier when the Pamir difficulty is settled. The Bank of Australasia and Union Bank of Australia object to re-admit the reoonstructed banks on the former agreement with regard to discount rates. Nelson Bros, have declared a further divdend of two per cent. The fact of the House of Commons being out of session, combined with the absence of Ministers, is delaying Mr R. Reid, the Victorian delegate, but he has arranged to have a preliminary interview with the Treasury officials tomorrow. He will address the London Chamber of Commerce in a few days, and will probably arrange a meeting in London with Sir Chas. Tnpper and Mr Cecil Rhodes, to discuss trade relations and decide on joint proposals to the Home Government. At a meeting of the unsecured debenture holders in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, it was decided not to appoint a separate committee. A resolution was passed expressing confidence in the creditors' committee and approval of the reconstruction scheme. The Government has decided to make a grant of .£2,000 the Hobart Exhibition. Capktown, February 1. Mr Rhodes says steps must be taken to put a stop to the native outrages and aggression in Pondoland, a territory on the East Coast of South Africa. [In Pondoland, Africa, says a Capetown despatch of 20th December, a wo- I man accused of causing the death of her child by witchcraft, was bound to a stake planted in the middle of an anthill, and her body stripped of all clothing and smeared from head to foot with grease. The ants, attracted by the grease swarmed all over the unfortunate creature, and eventually devoured her.] Caibo. February 1. One of the native journals published in this city says that Lord Cromer has increased the hatred felt by the Egyptians towards the English. Rome, February 1. The Italian Government has formulated measures to extirpate the Anarchists. Merlino, an Anarchist leader, has been arrested. The House of Lords has amended the Parish Councils Bill by restricting the franchise to ratepayers. The Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Kaiser will attend the marriage of the Duke of Hesse to Princess Victoria at Coburg in April. Washington, February 2. The new tariff and the income tax proposals have passed the Lower House by 203 to 140 votes, amid great enthusiasm. Paris. February 2. M. Casimir - Perier, the Premier, defended the French Navy from M. Lockroy's attacks, and declared that 200,000 men were available for coast defence. He undertook to reform any abuses now existing. A vote of confidence in the Government was passed.