HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 342, 18 June 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS. A STEAMER FOUNDERED IN A CYCLONE. TWENTY-TWO LIVES LOST. DIBBS' FEDERATION PROPOSALS. DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S BILL FALL IN BANK of NEW ZEALAND SHARES. MILITARY SERVICE IN' THK TRANSVAAL. 'PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. .Jnnp 17 The Statist, Economist and other financial journals repeatedly warn investors against the West Australian "old fie Id. The Australian banks have reduced the rates of purchasing hills by half per per cent. The Prince of Wales, Lord Onslow, Lord Carrington, Duke of Fife, Marquis of Ripon, and Lord Rosebery voted for the second reading of a Bill sanctioning the marriage with deceased wife's sister. Shares in the Bank of New Zealand are quoted as follows : — New, £4 ; old, £3. The fall is attributed to the forced sales of shareH by the shareholders in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, in order to meet the calls made by the latter Company. Ottawa, June 15. The opening of the conference has been postponed till the 26' h inst. The Hon. Mr Fitzgerald, one of Victorian delegates is lying ill at Vancouver The other two representatives of the colony have stayed behind with him, and will probably start on Sunday arriving at Ottawa on following Saturday. llono Kong, June 16. The Settlic foundered in a cyclone near Rangoon. The- chief officer and twenty two of the crew are missing. Capetown, Juno 17 Tbo Gorfiruor of Cnpe Colouy urgps President Kruger, of Transvaal, to exempt British rosideuf-s from military service. Brosskls June 1G The Belgians are fortifying Yakoma, on the Aubanghi River. It is said that 25,000 and a number of Europeans are prepared to take up anus against the French encroachmeut in that district.