HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

« I HEAVY DECREASE IN ENGLISH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. THE MIOWERA SUCCESSFULLY FLOATED. FURTHER CRIMES THREATENED IN IRELAND. GLUT IN THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. NATURAL SELECTION THEORY. JABEZ BALFOUR. PROPOSED CANAL THROUGH RUSSIA, A STRANGE STATEMENT. (PER PRESB ASSOCIATION.! London, Aupust 9 In making their escape from the ice Wellrnan and his companions partly I rowed and partly carried the boat 250 miles in four weeks, reaching Spitzbergen at last frostbitten and almost without food. I — -Imports for the past twelve mouths have decreased i.1,447,000, and exports £1,852,000. The Miowera has been successfully floated. Irish papers threaten that violence will bu committed in the winter if the House of Lords rejects the measures providing for the reinstatement of evicted tenants. A Motor iau wheat cargo, ex barque William Williamson, was sold at 24s 3d. Owing to the glut in Australian frozen meat provision merchants are using four vessels as store ships. Lord Salisbury, in delivering an address as president of the British Association for the Advancement tf Science, questioned natural selection as the true theory of evolution. Sir E. Grey has informed Mr Hogan, M.P., that he expects to obtain compensation for the captain of the Costa Rica from the Dutch Government. Buenos Aybes, August 9. Tim Federal Judge at Salta has granted the extradition of Jabez Balfour. Washington, Augnst y. President Cleveland has recognised the Hawaiian Republic. St Petersburg, August 9. Tho Russian Government is surveying a canal connecting the Baltic and the Black Seas. It is proposed to join the upper courses of the Dnieper and the Dwina. Nkw York, August 9. The New York Herald states that the President's children are being guarded by detectives ou account of a plot to kidnap them.