ROME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1895, Page 2

ROME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE TALLOW MARKET. GERMAN NAVAL EXPENDITURE. THE PACIFIC CABLE. LORD CHURCHILL'S ILLNESS. FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR. \ SIR W. V. HARCOURT'S RESIGNATION. [PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION. ' London, January 11. A shipment of 8000 tons of tallow from the colonies in December has demoralised the market, and business is almost at a standstill. New Zealand fine mutton and good beef tallows are respectively worth 23s 6d and 21s 6d per cwt., nominal value. Lord Randolph Churchill has rallied slightly. Later. Lord Randolph Churchill lias again relapsed into a comatose state. It is rumoured the Dervishes are besieging fifteen hundred Italians in Kassala, and a sortie bj r the garrison was repulsed. Reports continue to be persistently circu'atcd that Sir W. V. Harcourt intends to resign, the cause being a difference with his colleagues over the propriety of a loan for an increase in the navy. Beblin. January 14. Count Hohenlohe proposes to expend a sum of eighteen million marks almost immediately in increasing the German navy. The German Anti-Revolutionary Bill has been referred to a committee. Washington, January 14. The Republicans advocate a subsidy to laying an Ameiicau cable to Hawai't instead of granting one from the Sandwich Islands to Great Britain, as a landing station. Ottawa, January 14. Sir M. Bowell, in course of an interview, said the Dominion Government would aid the formation of Huddart's Atlantic Steamship Company to the utmost extent in their power. Pakis, January 14. The French have captured a Hova cruiser. Belgrade, January 14. The men charged with the attempt 'o poison King Alexander have been acquitted.