HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AMERICAN POLITICS. ITALIAN BANK SCANDAL. THE SITUATION IN BULGARIA. COLONIAL PRODUCE AT HOME. THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. QUELLING THE WAZIRI RISING. (PJJE PHRSS ASSOCIATION!. Washington, December 23. Senator Wilson has introduced a Bill providing for the repeal of differential duty on sugar. Admiral Walker (who was deputed by the United States Government to counteract British influence in favor of the Queen of Hawaii) states in a report to the Senate that the presence of British warships in Hawiian waters imperils American influence, and that the British are only waiting for an opportunity, in the absence of American cruisers, to land troops to support the Royalists against the Republicans. Rome, December 22. The position of Signor Crispi is much stronger since further forged documents have been discovered, and he retains the full confidence of King Humbert. London, Deoember 22. The remains of the late Sir J. S. D. Thompson were embarked on board R.M.S. Blenheim at Portsmouth to-day, the ceremony being an impressive one. Mr Charles Thomson, one of the Directors of Mr Valentine's new produce company, says that Central Queensland will find it necessary to adopt the American system of meat packing, and advocates the appointment of import experts and the formation of co-operative societies. He thinks the trade admits of great development by salting and smoking. Sofia, December 22. M. Stoiloff, who resigned a few days ago, has resumed office with a reconstructed Ministry. New York, December 22. Cardinal Satolli, the Papal delegate, has published an edict of the Pope under which Roman Catholic members of the Oddfellows, Knights of Pythias and Sons of Temperance are placed under the ban. Calcutta, December 22 Sir William Lockhart, who commands the punitive expedition against the Waziris, is advancing rapidly and dispersing the natives. I St. Petersburg, December 22. The Czar explains that the construction of the Siberian Railway is purely in the interest of peace and civilisation and that he hopes to have it cheaply and rapidly completed. Rio dk Janeiro, December 24. The Ruahine left to-day for London, with her frozen meat in good order.