HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 148, 19 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

RUSSIAN DESIGNS IN BULGARIA. MANCHESTER COTTONS IN INDIA AFRAID OF WAR. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. NEW ZEALAND AND RIVER PLATE COMPANY. {PRB PRESS ASSOCIATION! London. December 17. Vice-Admiral de Cuverville, Maritime Prefect at Cherbourg, and a prominent officer of the navy, has urged that the French navy and army shonld be kept iv coutinual readiness for war w.tli England. The annual report of the New Zealand aud River Plate Land aud Mortgage Company shows a profit for the year of iIO.OOO, which the directors recommend shall be carried forward. They also recommend that no credit bo taken for interest, and that a drastic system of writing down the valuo of the properties of tho company bo instituted. The majority of the prcsout bondholders avo accepting the new debontures. Sofia, December IS. Mr Stoiloff has resigned the Premiership of Bulgaria, being unable to satisfy tho Russophilo Party. Calcutta, December 18 Tho Indian Government has deckled to impose a 5 por ceut ad valorem duty on Manchester cotton, accompanied by an excise tax on the low-grade article manufactured locally. Rome, December 17. King Humbert, in the course of a conversation with M. Zola, the French author, declared that none of the Powers in Europe desire war, and Italy least of all. The prorogation of Parliament has been very ill-received in Italy, and Signor Crispi's action is condemned. His conduct is viewed in the same light in Vienna.