HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 70, 17 September 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE FEENQH THRONE^TRANSVAAL ABTllßS|f| THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION IN AMERICA. THE EGYPTIAN SCANDAL. [PBB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.! . London. t ßentember v 15. , v < One oF the fat cattle imported from Australia by the Maori King realised 5d per pound at Smithfield marketA Statist offers a prize of a thousand guineas for the' best scheme for ari Imperial Customs Union, and has asked, Lord Rosebery and the Marquis of Salisbury to act as judges. \ * September 16. The Economist considers the Credit Fancier scheme for colonials is too much allied to quackery, and the colonies would be the gainers if the British investors refused to lend the Government money for mortgage loans. Mr Fourest, of Queensland, has introduced a new system of thawing meat which he claims is an improvement on the old process. ; ■ Official analysis has been made of the Australian frozen meat imported into Vienna and also of fresh. Gallician, and Hungarian meat. The reports are perfeotly cquil. and aa butchers are selling Australian as Austrian Mr Weddel, with the sanction of the Vienna Council, has opened several retail Bbops in order to thwart the opposition oi butchers Madrid, Sept. 15. The Spanish officials have sentenced Prince Francois, of the House of Bourbon, to two months for issuing a manifesto while holding a Spanish generalship claiming the French throne on the death of the Comte de Paris. Capetown, September 15. The yearly output of wine for the colony has decreased to four million gallons, and the drop is attributed to phylloxera. It is reported that a syndicate has purchased Port Delagoa Bay on behalf of Transvaal, thus giving the latter a commanding position in South Africa and baffling the plans of Mr C. Rhodes. The purchasers, however, deny that they are acting for Transvaal or anyone else. N*w Y6iirßept: 16 Father Ducety writes to the newspapers in New York that lie is watching on behalf of the Vatican the enquiry by Congress with reference to the corruption of the various municipal authorities, and he adds that the Pope is afraid that the alleged connection of Catholics with Tammany Hall will endanger the reputation of the Church in America. Caiko, Sept. 16. Two of the Pashas charged with purchasing Soudanese slave girls were acquitted, and one was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment. Brigadier-General Kitchener has confirrne:! the sentence, but not the acquittals, holding that the latter was against