HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCE. THE ANARCHIST OUTRAGE IN PARIS. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT. JABE/J BALFOUR TO REMAIN IN ARGENTINA. MORE STRIKES THREATENED. LORD ROSEBERY AND THE IRISH PARTY. THE NEW HUDDART SERVICE AND THE PACIFIC CABLE. IRISH LAND QUESTION. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MINE. (PEB PHESS ASSOCIATION). London, April 5 There is no indication thai Sir Thos. Mcllwraith has achieved any success in connection with his proposed Land and Grant Salo Railway Company. The promoters require a guarantee of a small dividend during the progress of the work, and they hesitate to incur the cost of forming companies ami to undertake surveys without adequate assurance that that they are likely to be recouped for the expenses entailed. Sir Saul Samuel is making enquiries I from the Consul for Paraguay in London as to tbe real condition of the New AusI tralian colonists. At the. meeting of the Bank of Australasia, the Chairman said the institution had more money than it could profitably invest. In the course of his remarks he dwelt on the extraordinary vitality and soundness of Australian commerce, and alluded to the complete success that bad attended the reconstruction schemes of various Banks that bad* suspended during the recent financial crisis. The agent in Buenos Ayres for the Paraguay Ceutral Railway Company, writing on March 19 th, reports that eighty scceders from the New Australia settlement have gone to the Gonzalez colony, where they are quite satisfied with their prospects, and tbe new settlement appears to be flomi suing. The Captain of the ship Wellington reports that her cargo of frozen meat is in good condition. The English press assert Argentina is opposed to the extradition of Jabez Balfour to London on tbe ground that it is illegal. At a meeting of Nottingham miner* Home violent speeches wero made, denouncing Shand as being biassed, and Bint as a partisan, and a strike is threatened. Probate has been granted in the will of the late Sir Henry G. Elliott, tbe amount being half a million. At the Bank of Australasia meeting the Chairman said the losses in Melbourne had absorbed half the profits. The proportion of the reserves to the liabilities during the year was about 33 per cent. Admiral Colomb, writing to the Times, says that if tbe Imperial Government pays subsidies to Mr Huddart's new steamship line, and to the Pacific cable, the Australasian warships ought to be available for general service in tbe Pacific, and land forces of the various Australasian colonies ought to be available for service between Halifax and Australia. The cession of the Parnelhtee and tbe Healj section is seriously weakening tbe Government in connection with tbe debate on tbe scheme for tbe Scotch Grand Committee. Tbe following committee has been set up to enquire into the working of the Irish Land Act: — Right Hon. John Mor- , ley, Mr T. M. Healy, Mr E. Carson, Mr Thomas Sexton, Mr J. L. Wharton, Mr J. A. Willox, Mr T. W. Russell, and Mr E. F. V. Knox. [The committee numbers four Gladstone- Liberals, one Lib-eral-Unionist, and three Conservatives.] Sir Thomas Mcllwraitb, addressing tbe Colonial Party in tbe House of Commons, said that New Guinea was the best field for recruiting coloured labour. He urged that the colonies should be consulted before their Governors are appointed. The Queensland separation movement was, be said virtually extinct. He thought the Imperial Government ought to encourage tbe emigration. The BUI to give effect to tbe award of the Behring Sea Commission has been read a second time in the House of Commons. Washington, April 6. The House of Representatives has agreed to tho award of the Behring Sea | Commission. , Calcutta, April 5. Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India, received tbe Victorian delegates at Lucknow. They .have been sent by the Government for the purpose of developing tbe Australian trade with India. Paris. April 6. Forty arrests have been made in connection with the bomb explosion in tbe Cafe Fojot, opposite tbe Senate. Buenos Ayres, April 6. Owing to the insanitary condition of the Portuguese warships, the Argentine Government insists on tbe Brazilian rebels being quarantined, failing which the vessels must leave the harbour, and take the refugees with them. Berlin, ipril 3 Fifteen German officers have been dismissed from tbe service for gambling. A shaft collapsed in a mine in Breslau, eleven persons being killed and a large number injured.