HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 71, 18 September 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

ILLNESS OF SIR V. HARCOURT. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. NEW ZEALAND MUTTON. THE DEFENCE of m COLONIES. AN OPENING FOR AUSTRALIAN MEAT. BANK AMALGAMATION. THE LATE COMTE DE PARIS. AN OPENING FOR AUSTRALIAN MEAT. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.! London, September 16. Grave reports are current as to the state of Sir V. Harcourt's eyesight. It is believed it may affect his ability to retain the leadership of the House of Commons. A train was thrown off the rails at Batley, in Yorkshire, through defective points. Fourteen persons were injured. The Statist desires to see the relations with the colonies placed on a lasting footing with a view of inducing each to join the Zollverein. The Comt>> de Paris, in bis political testament, asks his friends to rally round the Duke of Orleans and return to tbe Monarchy, as tbe only means of appeasing political and religious passions. Thousands bave lost religious sentiment, and do not believe in God, who will abandon France. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard wires that supplies are short in that city, and there is a splendid opening for Australian meat. City men are in favor of the Colonial and New Zealand Banks amalgamating. H.M.S. Py aides pro seeds to the Australian station. New Zealand mutton by the Opawa sold at top prices at Liverpool. Rear- Admiral Colomb, in a letter to the Times, says that New South Wales is spending money to prevent an attack, but assumes that a mode of attack will j be used wbich an enemy in superior force would not dream of adopting. If attacks by sea are possible, the real defence, ho points ont, should be Like that employed at Cronstadt, Toulon, and Vladivostock. The Duke of Orleans has stated his intention of returning to France, declaring that he prefers to risk his head to remaining in exile. Tangiers, Sept. 17. The Sultan of Morocco has recovered. The revolt of the Kabyiles has been suppressed. The Governor of Casabianca has refused to pay any attention to the protects of the injured Consuls. The average price of English wheat is 255. Calcutta, September 17. It is stated that the ameer of Afghanistan will visit England in March.