HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 273, 28 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

" NEW AUSTRALIA." AN AMERICAN NAVY SCANDAL. BANQUET TO THE AGENTSGENERAL. MR HUDDART'S ATLANTIC SERVICE. STRIKE IN SWITZERLAND. BANK OF ENGLAND. FRANCE'S COLONISING POLICY. DEATH OF A PROMINENT MUSICIAN. THE CYCLIST WARWICK. (PER PRESB ASSOCIATION). London. March 27. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette declares that the New Australian settlement in Paraqnay is a complete fiasco. The Lord Mayor will give a banquet to the Agents-General on the 23rd April (St. George's Day). Lord Ripon has consented to attend. The Tower bridge is completed. The Times regards Mr Huddart's request fo? an Imperial subsidy for his Atlantic service as a reasonable one, owing to its advantages for military purposes, and adds that the prospect of the construction of the Pacific cable should justify tho British Government in agreeing to a guarantee for the cable. Great Britain, it says, must remove the obstacles to trade between the colonies. The election of the directors of the Bank of England has resulted in some important changes. The death is announced of Sir Robert Prescott Stewart, musical writer and composer, aged 69 years. Le Temps regards as vain the hope to attempt to unify the French colonies, as special troops are essential in Africa to bear the climate. Mr R. C. Munro-Ferguson, on becoming Secretary to tho Treasury, has been re-elected member for Leith, though with a reduced majority of 512. The French agents are trying to secure plans of the new works being carried on at Gibraltar. The British and three European powers are endeavoring to arrange an International conference to deal with the Anarchists. The Westminster Gazette referring to the postal conference in Wellington considers it absurd to make England's concession respecting penny postage dependent on Australian finance. Tho Pall Mall Gazette states H.M.S. Crescent will not be the flagship on the Australian station, and that H.M.S. Orlando is to be recorumissioned for three years. Commander Lovett Cameron, the well known explorer, has died from injuries obtained by a fall while hunting. BeHMP, Marck 27A general strike of- Swiss workmen has been arranged on behalf of the tailors, whose wages have been reduced. Washington, Mirch 27. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations denies that the Government intend to improve Pearl Harbour, in Hawaii. Admiral Walker bas been appointed to counteract British influence in favor of the Queen of Hawaii. A report presented to Congress reveals that grave defects have been seen in the armour-plates supplied to the navy. Contractors are refunding the money they have received. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador, is arranging a new modus vivendi respecting the Bearing Sea fisheries. Paris. March 27 A band of Anarchists damaged many monuments in the cemetery, near Roubaix. Of 300 Anarchists arrested in Paris, 40 were detained and several sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. Warwick, the Australian cyclist, won the Intercolonial Race at Nice, and also the Prize-winners' Race, [after a brilliant finish. Rome, March 27. Kossuth's family has communicated with King Humbert, thanking him for bis message of condolence.