HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 283, 9 April 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

FROZEN MEAT TRADE. IMPERIAL PENNY POSTAGE. BEHRING SEA AWARD. END OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA TROUBLE. THE BRAZILIAN REBELS. MR HUDDART'S NEW SERVICE. EXTENSIVE FAILURE OF A LEGAL FIRM. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, April 8 The Riniutaka left Plymouth to-day for New Zealand with 100 passengers and 2500 tons of cargo. Port Chalmers is her first port of call in the colony. Mr Huddart states that he feels disposed to make Southampton the terminal point of the Atlantic service. As a result of a visit to Smithfield, Sir Thomas Mcllwraith expressed surprise at the inferior quality of Queensland heef, as compared with American. The Times conwders the colonial opposition to penny postage quite intelligible, and suggests that perhaps a reduction will be possible «t the next revision of the rates by the Postal Union. Messrs Garrard, solicitors, Eveshani, have failed, with liabilities amounting to £300,000. At the Colonial Institute Mr Inglis, a a New South Wales legislator, read a paper on the economic development of Australian enterprise, and dwelt especially on new industries and sub-topical crops. He said the influx of farmers into the central division of New South Wales and the opening up of the Mallee irrigation colonies had been attended with great success, and he declared that co-operative dairying, frozen meat and the artesian well system had added a new province to Australia as large as Jlatabelelo.net, and without bloodshed. Washington, April 8 Tho President has signed the award in connection with the Behring Sea fisheries. South Carolina is quieting down, and tho proclamation delaring martial law has been removed. Rio de Janiebo, April 8. Tho rebel squadron has forced an entrance into Rio Grande harbor. Paris, April 7. M. Paul Jablochkoff, the well-known electrician, is dead. Berlin, April 7 The Chancellor has decided to mint additional silver to the value of twenty million marks. .