HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 240, 15 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

COLONIAL PRODUCE. DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. SEVERE GALES IN GERMANY. INDIAN BUTTER IN LONDON. i FATAL EXPLOSION. THE BRAZIL WAR. THE QUEEN THREATENED BY A MADMAN. HOW THE UNEMPLOYED ARE TALKED TO. (PER PHKSS ASSOCIATION.) Paris. February 14. The Government have forbidden seditious emblems being placed in cemeteries, by Anarchists, or over Vaillant's grave. Ferdinand de Less-ips has been appointed honorary President of the Suez Canal, and Charles de Lesseps will be appointed Vice- President on resigning from the managing committee. Loxdo^t, February 13 Some of the Aorangi'a factory butter brought from 100s to 108?, fancy sorts, 112s ; cheese by the same vessel, 52s to 54s per cwt ; fancy sorts, 565. In response to a great meeting of the National Liberal Federation, held at Portsmouth for the purpose of dealing with the attitude of the House of Lords regarding Liberal measures, the Radical societies and newspapers have started an active crusnde against tho Upper ( 'hamber. An English dairy company in Bombay is offering to sell Indian butter in London at 9d per Hi, free of all charges. A trial shipment has been ordered. The War Office experts report very favourably of Victorian brandy. An accidental explosion occurred in a small arms factory at Leigh, and the directors and several others were killed. A man named Wyndhain Carter, who was at one timo confined in a lunatic asylum, was charged at Bow street Police Court yesterday with having threatened to kill the Queen unless his claim to an earldom was recognised. He was remanded for medical examination. Sir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government had no intention of re-opening the Indian mints for the free coinage of silver, or returning to the minimum rate for the sale of Council bills. It was, he said, not intended to tax imported silver, or change the present policy. Unemployed agitators are urging that the Duke of Westminster and other aristocrats be hanged from lamp-posts, as wan done in Paris during the Revolution. In ihe course of a lecture at the Colonial Institute on the British Empire, General Chcsuey advocated the formation of a Council of the Empire, consisting of the Prime Minister, some members of the Imperial Cabinet, and the Premiers of the great colonial dominions, t< 'gather with some of their colleagues, to deal with Imperial and colonial affairs, thus securing a harmonious policy and superseding the Colonial Office. Literal members detnaud that the Government shall re-insert in the Parish Councils Bill the clauses rejected by the House of Lords. Beblik, February 14. The death is announced of Hans Von Bulow, the eminent pianist, in his 65th year. Severe gales have been experienced in Germany. Many lives have been lost and much property destroyed. Rio de Janeibo. Februiry 14. The Runutaka, from Wellington, January 18, arrived to-day with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. Nkw Yobk. February 14, It is reported from Brazil that Admiral de Gamft is dying of his wounds received during the insurgent attack on Armacaoi.