Special' Cables.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 340, 15 June 1894, Page 2

Special' Cables.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION^. London, June 12. . At a meeting of the shareholders of the P. and 0. . Company, Sir T. Sutherland said the 'slackness in Australian passenger' tradl had been severely felt, but the receipts from freights exceeded those of the corresponding six months by £25,000. They felt justified in recommending n dividend, but it would be necessary to face an ugly loss upon exchange during the I remainder of the year. -•-™*-~" .. < June 13. -' A torpedo destroyer is being tuilt at Yarrow Yards for Russia, to have a speed of 29 knots. -■•■-;•>*-»*■*,*; The cab strike cost the owners £60,000. Sir W. V. Harcourt, in the course of his remarks, expressed surprise at the comparison of, the legacy duty to the Boston tea duties which led to the American revolution. He considered the parallel absurd and unworthy M notice. - . -■'■''■ The Times correspondent at Berlin says the populace is hostile to the Anglo-Congo Treaty,, as its. prevents Germany getting access to the Congo, and that the Kaiser and Count Yon Capri vi are determined to have a share in the settlement of the question.- : • Bhusskls, June 18. Theßelgian Government has directed its troops in the Congo territory to avoid any conflict. . „ '"' Washington, June 13. Mr Harris, Democratic Leader in the Senate, expects a compromise will be agreed to under which raw wool will be admitted free.