HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE COLLIERY DISASTER. JABEZ BALFOUR STILL FREE. SHIPPING FREIGHTS. (Per Press Association.) Beunos Ayres, January 16. The British Consul from here has left Salta after being there a year, as he despairs of the extradition of Jabez Balfour to England. London, January 15. The King of Ashantee is def . ing the Governor of the British Gold Coast Col ony. Lord Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has refused to receive a native embassy from that country Mr Stewart, Official Receiver, who has examined the Bank of South Australia (in liquidation), reports that it wi.l be necessary to make a call of £'8 per share, payable in easy instalments There are still 92 miners entombed in the Giglake colliery at Audley and there is now but small prospect ot their escape. The Telegraph congratulates the Empire and the colonies on| Lord Brassey's acceptance of the Governorship of Vie toria, especially in view of the threatened reduction in salary. The Daily News says Lord Brassey is the right man in the right place, but at the same time highly . eulogises Lord Hopetoun's record in Victoria. Lord Rosebery will shortly retire from the London County Council. j St. James' Gazette suggests that Lord Brassey aspired to the control of the Admiralty, and is being sent to Victoria to avoid his voting against the | Government. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks Lord Brasey's special knowledge on questions of federation and Imperial defence will be of benefit to Australia. Messrs Oetzes and Gerritsen, and Chate and Harris, two provision firms, state that if the Australian exporters are willing to accept 6d each for the rabbits, they can be certain of an enormous sale among the poorer classes. The leading Australian and New Zealand shipping companies are combining to raise the freights and passenger rates in order to avoid the present ruinous competition. Brussels, January 16. Seversl doctors certify that the persons said to have been poisoned by Jounaix died from natural causes Bek„in. January 16. In the Reichstag, Baron Marschall von Biebersten, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that; Germany desired to maintain an attitude bf complete neutrality, and had no wish to adopt an overbearing attitude towards the other Powers. The national feeling of tbe Germans abroad, however, required strengthening, and the number of j cruisers ought to be increased.