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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 143, 13 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MARRIAGE LAW IN AUSTRIA. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. FAILURE OF THE CHINESE LOAN WRECK OF A SCHOONER. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF . VICTORIA. IPBR __EB3 ASSOCIATION.) London, December 11. Lord Brassey states that he has no official knowledge that he is to succeed Lord Hopetoun as Governor of Victoria, but he declines to deny tbe report tbat he will be appointed. In the case against Reginald Saunderson, who killed nnd mutilated a woman named Augusta Dawes, the Coroner's jury has returned a verdict of murder. The British Parliament meets on February sth. The Financial News says it is useless for the Bank of New Zealand shareholders to attempt to resist the call. The Chinese loan which was placed on the London market has been withdrawn, the agent finding that the Chinese officials had been guilty of duplicity iv connection with the negotiations. Buda Pesth, December 11 Dr Wekerle, the Premier, announced to the Hungarian Diet that the Emperor Francis had assented to the Civil Marriage Act, and referred to the decisive defeat of the Vatican Liberals. The Premier's remarks were received with prolonged cheering, the scene being unequalled Bince the time of _ Kossuth All the larger towns are brilliantly illuminated in honor of the occasion. Washington, December 11. Senator Morgan asserts that no foreign Government objects to the United States having Control of tho Nicaragua Canal. Paris, December 11. The Tariff Committee has pronounced in favour of a sliding scale in the import duties on cereals, wine and cattle. Obituary— M. Burdeau, President of the Chamber of Deputies. Rome, December 12. S. Gioletti, Premier, has produced a suppressed document in the Banca Romana scandal to-day. After a stormy sitting a Committee was appointed to report.