HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 245, 21 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

THE EMPEROR AND BISMARCK. BALFOUR DEMANDS HIS RELEASE. (per press association.) Bcexos Avbes, February 20. Jabez Balfour demands his immediate release, as thirty days have elapsed since his arrest. Lokdox, February 19. Applications have already been received for a large portion of the New Zealand conversion stock. A meeting of 25 members of the House of Commons was addressed by Mr Reid, and promised to give their support to the Pacific cable and mails subsidies, and the proportion respecting Imperial defence. Mr Reid intends to interview Ministers again shortly on the subject of differential trade relations between Australia, Canada, and the Cape. It is reported that the villagers of Miafounie, in Western Soudan, threatened the France envoj's, "whereupon the latter opened a cannonade, which killed a hundred of the natives. Professor Johnson, of Exeter Grammar School, has been appointed Mathematical Professor at the Auckland University Col lege, to succeed Professor Aldis Bebun. February 20 The Kaiser visited Prince Bismarck and greeted him with every demonstration of affection. Great popular enthusiasm was shown at the rapprocJiemcul between the Emperor and the exChancellor. ICew York, Ser'"nt» e ' 20 Mackene, a political agitator, has been sentenced to six years for violating tho Electoral law. BucuabEsT February 20. It is reported that the Romanian fleet in the Black Sea is to be increased in view of the possible necessity of interposing in naval matters in those waters.