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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 113, 7 November 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

t _ — . .«. THE MADAGASCAR TROUBLE. LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA. THE PRIVY COUNCIL. AN IMPERIAL WAR DEPOT AT SYDNEY. WRECK OF THE DORUNDA. ' [pkh peess association.! London, Nov. 6. Tho London Bank of Australia shows a net profit for the half-year ended June 30th (including the amount brought forward) of .£9OOO. A dividend of 5J- per cent on the preference shares has been declared, aud t4,400 carried forward. The Times thinks that au Australian, Canadian, or South African judge should have a scat ou the Judicial Committee of the Privy Couucil, and urges that au Australian judge ought first to be appointed to the position. The Colouies, adds the Times, arc not likely to raiso auy objections to sharing the expense iv connection with the matter. In tho course of an interview, Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman aud joint mauaging director of tho P. and O. Steam Navigation Company, advocated the establishment of an Imperial Depot at Sydney, for tho storage of war material for the use of vessels selected as armed cruisers in cases of emergency. The Board of Trade euquiry into the circumstauces connected with the wreck of the steamer Doruuda on the Portuguese coast is proceeding. The decision will be given on Thursday. The captain admits that the casualty was due to his error iv calculation. Paris, November 6. The Tamatave correspondent of Le Temps says that the Hovas have replied to the French ultimatum, stating that they will not submit to French rule until forced to do so.