HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 262, 13 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

LARGE EMBEZZLEMENTS. THE SILVER QUESTION. MORE FIGHTING AT RIO. A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IM- I MINENT. ! SIR GEORGE GREY'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. THE MEMORIAL TO MR GLADSTONE. STARTLING CONSPIRACY IN COREA. THE PACIFIC CABLE. (PEK PBESS ASSOCIATION ) London, March 12. Pitt, late secretary of the North London Permanent and Commercial Building Society, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling the monies of the Society. Mir John Solby, the well-known cricketer, is dead. Tlio Morning Post favors the granting of a subsidy to Hnddart's line. With regard to the cable it considers that unless in British hands throughout it would be useless in war time, and could not expect to receive assistance from the Imperial Government. It suggests the cable should be under Government control. Obituary .— Judpe Stephens. Tho Westminster Gazette says Sir George Grey's welcome in England is assured. The Liberal Party warmly advocate the proposed national memorial to Mr Gladstone. Viscount Oxenbridge has resigned the post of Master of the Horse. Lord Ripon, replying to Mr Reid, the Victorian Commissioner, said he was deeply interested in the proceedings of the Postal Conference at Wellington, and would represent to his colleagues the importance of such a cable as was there suggested. The Daily Chronicle supports the establishment of a British Pacific cable, and urges the payment of a subsidy to Mr Huddart's steamship line. Hong Koxg, March 12 Corean rcbols had formed a plot to blow up the King and his Minister.?. Nearly 1000 have been arrested. Rio de .Janeiro. March 12. The fleet equipped by President Piexoto in New York has arrived, and a battle with the rebel ships is imminent. New York. March 12. The New York Times says the only way to control the price of silver is to curtail the supply. The use of electricity may possibly cheapen the cost of production, and it will still be profitable if the price falls 45 cents. Vienna, March 12. The Austrian Government has introduced a Bill which will extend the franchise to a million more voters. Pabis. {rfarch 12. The French press publishes telegrams to the effect that 5000 Chinese soldiers have invaded the Upper Mekong, and seized Lvang Prabang, in the district which is to form the buffer State betweeu the British and French possessions in the East.