HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 95, 16 October 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

HOME DAIRY FARMERS. FEDERATION SCHEME. A NEW P. AND O. STEAMER. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. COLLAPSE OF A STRIKE. ACCIDENT TO AN OCEAN STEAMER. NEW COMMANDER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. (PUB PBESS ASSOCIATION 1. London, October 15 The Grocers' Gazette declares that the colonials are doing their best to strangle the Home dairy farmers, and states it is surprising such is permitted. Sir John Suley and others are forming groups of lecturers, who will deUver lectures throughout Great Britain and the colonies, with a view to promote the unity of the Empire and envolve a popular scheme of Federation. News bas been received that the steamer Buteshire, which left on the 20th August for Adelaide, has been towed into Mauritius, haviug broken her shaft. The report, published in May last, tbat Rear-Admiral A. G. Bridge will succeed Rear-Admiral Bowden- Smith on the AustraUan station, is now confirmed. A new P. and 0. steamer, the Simla, of 6000 registered tonnage, has been launched. She is intended for the Australian trade. Paris, October 15. M. Goblet, the Radical leader, asserts that owing to the President's policy of combating the Democracy and trying to engraft personal Conservative rule upon the country, his fate wiil be similar to Marshal Macmabon's. The Radicals and SociaUsts will unite to oppose him. Vienna, October 16. King Alexandra of Servia is visiting the Emperor of Austria at Buda Pesth. Suez, October 14. The strike of the dredge men has been settled. Brussels, October 15. The first elections held in Belgium under the universal suffrage resulted in gains by the SociaUsts and a severe check to the Moderate Liberals. The Catholic majority was maintained.