HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 234, 8 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

VICTORY FOR MR RHODES. THE FRENCH IN WEST AFRICA. THE NEW FLAGSHIP. A THREATENED STRIKE. i N.Z.L. MERCANTILE COMPANY. I I i PROHIBITION IN ONTARIO. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Capetown, February 6. The result of the general elections gives Mr Cecil Rhodes, the present Premier, a majority of twenty four members in tbe House of Assembly. Londox, February 6 j At the meeting of the London and Australasian | tralasian Debenture Corporation Board fc>ir Jamer Fergusson, chairman of the Board, said it hnd been decided to repay tbe terminable debentures, and to issue £200,000 worth of perpetual four per cents for the purpose. The French have seized the town of Cavally, on the coast of Guinea, West Africa, and the people of Liberia, the well-known Negro republic, are incensed at the step. A meeting of shareholders in the English^Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank fixed February 14th as the date for obtaining approval of lhe bill authorising the Bank to pay its creditors interest accrued during the term of suspension. February 7. The Crescent, which replaces the Orlando as flagship for the Australian station, takes out new crews for the Ringarooma and Katooiuba. There is some discontent among the London dockers respecting over-work caused by the wool sales which it is feared may possibly end in a strik. Dunscombe Hall, in Yorkshire, is on fire. Mr R. H. Glyn, President of the Bank of New Zealand, at a meeting of the directors, said he thought it was their duty to assist in the re-construction of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. Any action taken with regard to the Compauy had not prejudiced the position of the Bank. Ottawa. February 7. A plebiscite taken in the province of Ontario showed a proportion of seventeen to eleven in favor of prohibition. Sofia, February* 7. The Princess of Bulgaria and all the Ministers have been summoned to the palace. Berlin, February 8. Under the new commercial treaty, Russia makes a large reduction in the duties oil wool and many other manufactures, while Germany reduces the duty on Russian cereals from 7| to 3^ marks. The treaty is to be in force for ten years.