HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 310, 10 May 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

♦ AUSTEALIAN BUTTER MARKET. THE BRITISH IN AFRICA. LABOUR RIOTS IN VIENNA. NEW FROZEN MEAT ASSOCIATION THE LABOUR AGITATION IN ' AMERICA. FINANCIAL PANIC IN THE ARGENTINE. GREAT FIRE AT THE BERMUDAS. ANOTHER SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION/. London, May 9. Mr Baird has assisted in forming a cooperative scheme among the Lancashire and Yorkshire salesmen who will undertake to distribute Australian butter and I return a part of the profit as a bonus to the producers. Ihe Daily Chronicle is afraid that tbe hoisting of the British flag at Wadelai may be accepted by the Mahdtsts as a de l berate challenge to try their strength with ihe intruders. The British East \fnca Company has wuhdrawu the offer to transfer their rights to the Imperial Government, as tbe establishment of British protectorate over Uganda enhances the value of tho territory under the G-'tnpauy's control. A Frozen Meat Importers' Association has been formed, with a membership which includes all the local meat impor ters and salesmen. The Association will meet every month, the elate of the first meeting being fixed for the 22nd inst A fire in tbe navy yard in Bermuda Islands destroyed the armoury, but the bluejackets from the warships in harbour managed to save the magazine. A report which was current of the outbreak of an insurrection in the Argentine Republic is not confirmed, but a commercial panic has occurred in tbe capital, and this fact has probably given rise to the other rumour. During tho last few days failures in business firms in Buenos Ayres representing in the aggregate the sum of £4,000,000 have been announced, and the latest advices state that several bankruptcies are imminent. Capetown, May 9. The Boers art preparing to wage war against a number of Native Chiefs for refusiug to pay taxes end defying tbe Government. Vienna, May 8. A thousand bricklayers attacked nonunionists in Vienna. The police dispersed the rioters by the use of clubs and swords and arrested the leaders. Washington, May 9. Coxey, Brown and Jones, the leaders of the great unemployed agitation, have been committed for trial for violating the statutes relating to the Capitol, but have appealed to the higher Court. The police shot several of Coxey's army for boarding a train in ■Washington State.