HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 8 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

A SHIPPING COMPANY'S LOSSES. THE NEW PRODUCE COMPANY. REPRESSION OF SOCIALISM IN GERMANY. THE ARMENIAN HORRORS. DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO. (Per Press Association.) London, December 6. Lord George Hamilton has been elected chairman of the London School Board. Tyser Company's losses last year amounted to £21,000 and the profit and loss account now shows a debit balance of £78,000. It is reported that Great Britain will shorty annex Aehantee. The Government has ordered the permanent arming of the Canadian Pacific and P. and O. steamers, and has also decided that each shall carry a gunner. The chief objects of Mr Valentine's produce Co. is to distribute Colonial produce in the centres outside of London. Replying to the request of Messrs N«l---son and Valentine the, Agents-General declare it impossible for them to become a reference board for the Company. Mr Chaa. Thompson becomes Director, and Messrs Nelson have agreed to join the Board. Lieut.-General Sir Andrew Clarke expresses his willingness to act as AgentGeneral for Victoria in London if his j services are required. Armenian refugees state that Turkish soldiers were walking about the streets of Erzeroum after the massacre carrying babies empaled on spears. M ohocco, December 6. The British Embassy is detained at Fez, and the position is regarded as critical, as the insurgents have command of the road on the coast. Twenty citizens who ventured outside the walla which surround Fez were murdered. Berlin, December 7. Prince Hohenlohe, the Chancellor, has at the instigation of the Emperor introduced in the Reichstag an Anti-Socialist Bill providing for severe penalties on those proved to be connected with any revolutionary plot, or attack upon religion, the monarchy, marriage and property. Special provision is made to prevent the military joining in any such movement.