HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 141, 11 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

• FREE TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES. ITALIAN TROOPS IN THE SOUDAN THE BUTTER MARKET. NEW COLONIAL GOLDMINING COMPANY. THE KAISER ANGRY. (Per Press Association.) New York, December 9. Several leading manufacturers in the United States are taking the initiative in a movement to form a free trade league. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation directing that the provisions of the new Chinese Exclusion Act are to be brought into operation immediately. Rome. December 9. In the Chamber of Deputies, Baron Blanc, Foreign Minister, said the Italian troops had occupied Kassala on a similar footing to that held by the British troops in Suakim, and the course adopted had solidified Italian relations with Great Britain regarding Egypt. He added that it was not intended to attack Khartoum. London, December 10. Lord Brassey will probably succeed Lord Hopetoun as Governor of Victoria. The Hauraki Goldmining Company of New Zealand, with a capital of L 40.000, has been registered. The new company is to acquire a portion of the Kapanga Company's lands in the Thames district. The butter market is in a state of unrest. The choicest Danish is selling at 104 bto 112s ; second quality is quoted at 75s to 90s, but is difficult of sale. The imports of butter for November amounted to 16,000 tons above the returns for tbe corresponding month of last year The total increase in the imports of butter for the 11 months of the current year reaches 11,000 tons. The New Zealand butter which is now arriving has been frozen with great success. The Daily News advises the colonies to forsake Protection before seeking to induce England to abandon Freetrade. Berlin, December 10. The Emperor William says the recent scene in the Reichstag was a deplorable exhibition, and constituted a grave insult to Monarchy, but he declares that the new anti-revolutionary measures will cope with the evils.