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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE ARMENIAN HORRORS. LAND AND LOAN COMPANY. AMERICA AND SAMOA. THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE. (EBB PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, December, 4. The Times says it is rumoured the Treasury will allow the Post Office Savings Bank in future to invest deposits- in Indian stock. The Timos* Constantinople correspondent save a number of Turkish soldiers were threatened with death by shooting unless they joined in the outrages against tbe Armenians, and he also asserts tbat the Sultan has decorated Musbir, tbe author ot the atrocities, The Times considers that the Powers should unite in forwarding a protest against the outrages, and compelling the fullest enquiry into the matter, and the punishment of the offenders. The report of tho Land and Loan Company of New Zealand shows a loss of £1500 on the year's workings, chiefly dne to the depreciation in the value of sheep. The Standard, commenting on the Earl of Jersey's report on the Canadian Conference, doubts whether Germany or Belgium would consent to restore the Britsh commercial freedom of action, j and declares tbat the establishment of I preferential arrangements between Eng--1 nl and the colonies would be too great a tf-nsformation in the direction of Fie 3 trade to be discussed merely fortbf promotion of Imperial unity. Washington, December 4. The President, in his message to Congress, advises that America should with* draw from Samoa on reasonable terms and without prejudice to her rights. This course he suggests because of the fact tbat the present arrangement has not stimulated American trade or corrected the evils of administration. Tbe message is favourable to currency reform in the United States, based on the Baltimore plan.