HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 177, 26 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

A NEW TIMBER COMPANY , REGISTERED. , ALLEGED DEFICIT IN THE NEW [ ZEALAND REVENUE. A HUGE ENGLISH LOAN. ; i LORD CHURCHILL'S DEATH. ; | THE FRENCH CRISIS. AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE COMPANY. RABBIT SHIPMENT EXPERIMENT. THE POLICY OF MR CECIL RHODES. (Per Press Association.) London, January 24. Mr Cecil Rhodes, Premier of the Cape, addressing the shareholders of the British South Africa Company, said there would be no more fighting with the Matabele in the future. The Customs Uuion of the whole of South Africa was, he said, certain to be effected. The Australian Timber Company, with a capital of £59,000, has been registered. Mr L. A. Jessop. in a letter to the Standard, declares South Australia is sailing dangerously close to the wiud in tbe matter of borrowing, and repudiation is inevitable uuless bondholders cease lendiug. The Times suggests that Mr Turner, Premier of Victoria, should take the prospective deficit from the education grant. A cable published here announcing the estimated deficit of a quarter of a million in the New Zealand revenue has occasioned surprise and uneasiness in the city. The accuracy of the statement respecting nn expected deficiency in New Zealand is doubted. The New Zealand Loau aud Mercantile Company is appljdng to the Court to be made the receiver in the estate of Miles Bros. The Italians have occupied Hurud iv East Africa. It is reported that Slatiu Bey has escaped from the Mahdi. Some newspapers assert that a probable loan of twenty-five millions will be asked for when Parliament meets to establish coaling stations in the Mediterranean. The English and foreign press contain laudatory notices of the death of Lord R. Churchill. Arrived the ship Euterpe from Aucklaud, August 29th. The statement that Lord Brassey iutended to decline the Governorship of 1 Victona owing to the reduced salary is i denied. ! The charges of betting preferred against members ofthe Albert Club have bceu dismissed. 1 The average price of English wheat is 20s Sd. ' The Australian Mortgage and Agency * Company's balance-sheet shows a credit f balauce of £36,000, which the directors 1 consider it prudent to cany forward, f owing to the depression. Thej' propose, ' however, that an interim dividend of 5 1 per cent shall be paid at midsummer for . the current half-year. Mr Sounby Harrison, of Liverpool, 1 states that the trial shipment of rabbits ■" was spoiled owing to the length of cut--5 ting for paunching. They should only i be opened two inches, otherwise they 3 canuot be accepted. The heavy freight J charges compel them to reduce the offer to 8d a couple. , The Argentine harvest is backward i and the quality disappointing. It is ■ expected there will be a surplus of J 5,000,000 quarters for export. I Lord Rosebery, in his Cardiff speech, ', said that the discontent among the ■ Liberals was merely on the surface, and i that they had a good working majority. - The general election, the Premier said, I would probably take place in the im- ' mediate future. J A labour agitator wrote to Lord Ripon that there were 50,000 unemployed willing to emigrate if they were granted freo or assisted passages to the colonies. Lord Ripon replied that the project was impracticable. At the election for Evesham Mr Long, the Conservative candidate, defeated Mr Impey, Liberal, by 4760 votes to 3585. I Lord Salisbury considers the victory of the Conservative candidate at Evesham a very significant comment on the present current of politics. Ata meeting ofthe Bank of South Australia shareholders. Mr Stewat announced that he had received £70,000 from the re- , purchase of the South Australian assets. '. Washington, January 25. r A committee of the Senate has re- ( ported adversely on England's request with regard to a cable station for the Pacific cable. Paris, January 25. President Faure has summoned M. Ribot to form a ministry. The newly-elected President of France, M. Faure, in au interview aaid that France required a strong and dignified peace. He was proud of the revival of political feeling, because it would enable ! the country to co-operate in the harmony of nations Her foreign policy would be , j unchanged, whatever section of the Re- [ publicans took the lead. Athi'Ns, January 23. M. Tricoupis, the Premier, has resigned, owing to the Crown Prince persoually directing the movements of the soldiery without reference to the Executive.