HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 20, 24 July 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

HOW FROZEN MEAT IS DAMAGED. "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA." GREAT BRITAIN AND THE TRANSVAAL. THE DESTITUTE ALIENS BILL. THE NAVAL MANCEUVRES. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. ; Lokdon. July 23 A Sheffield firm having discovered the secret of manufacturing the shells made for the Russian Government have offered to supply the Imperial Government with the missile. The press complain that the barbed hooks used in fastening the covering of the New Zealand frozen meat are permitted to remain in the meat, thus endangering the lives of the consumers. Messrs Weddell and Co. advise colonial freezing companies to abolish use of fish hook label fasteners for frozen meat. The Eastern extention cable has wires specially kept clear for the rapid transmission of the Prince of Wales' felicitous message to India and the colonies on the 25th , the anniversary of telegraphic communication with Great Britain. Replies were received from the Viceroy of India, and the Governments of Singapore, Hong Kong, Mauritius, and the Australian colonies, within ten minutes of their despatch from the Imperial Institute. It is expected that Lord Salisbury will withdraw the Alien Bill for this session. The summer naval manoeuvres have begun. Pretoria, July 23. It is reported in Johannesburg that ! President Kruger will shortly pay a visit to London to rearrange the relations between Great Britain and the Transvaal. Capetown, July 23. The Rnapehu left Capetown yesterday for Hobart and Auckland. Cairo, July 23. It is reported that the Khedive is betbroved to the youngest daughter of the late Abdul Azig, a former Sultan of Turkey.