HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 162, 8 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MR. GLADSTONE AND PROTECTION. A RICH NEWSPAPER MAN. MRS. BESANT. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. (PRB PEEBS ASSOCIATION!. London, January 7. Franco and Germany have both protested against the presence in the ports of American Government doctors, 6ent there for the purpose of examining emigrants to prevent their taking disease with them to America. Mr Gladstone declines to compete for the Statist's prize until there is a better prospect of a practical result, and ths possibility of achieving a successful issue without admitting the principle of protection. The personality of the late Mr John Walter, of the Times, has been sworn at under £277,000. Mrs Besant writes to the newspapers | deferring her reply to the exposures published in the Westminster Gazette until she returns from India. The action of Victoria in wishing to withdraw from the cable guarantee causes some anxiety in commercial circles. Should the cable tariff be increased it is likely to affect wiring the market quotations of Australian produce, and mining ventures. The Times advises the Victorian Treasurer to exercise exercise extreme caution in pushing his Land Tax proposals, as there is ample evidence, it says, of the producing interests being already taxed to a breaking point. The prices for frozen meat are likely to keep up, owing to the shortness of the supplies from the Argentine Republic. Nelson Bros, quote good Australian cross-bred at aid.