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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 180, 30 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AMERICA AND HAWAII. THE POPE AND PKESSMEN. A CHINESE LOAN. THE RIVER PLATE COMPANY. VICTORIAN GOVERNORSHIP. SUPPOSED FOUNDERING OF A TRAINING SHIP. DEATH OF MARSHALL CANROBERT. (PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 28 Lord Brassey informed Lord Ripon that hia interest in Victoria and his desire to serve tho colony would not be les sened by the reduction in bis salary. This referred to the intimation that the amount was reduced to .£SOOO (since alt ered to £'7000. ) The Orient Steamship Company has raised the steerage rates to £15 Mr J. S. Hill, chairman of the Union Bank of Australia, at the half-i early meeting, said the decreased profit was due to an excessive cash balance (which it had been found necessary to keep in hand) and to the low prices of produce. The Directors expected the call upon the Bank of Australia would fully meet the Union Bank's claims. A Chinese gold loan of three millions at six per cent, has been arranged in London. The shareholders of the N Z and Riyer Plate L.M.A. Company have confirmed the resolution deciding on a reduction of the capital of the company. Heulin, January 28. It is feared the German training ship Stein has foundered in the Mediterranean. New York, January 28 The troops have withdrawn from New York, as the Brooklyn tram strike is collapsing. The Pope, in an encyclical, directs the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States to teach pressmen to respect religion and truth. The Senate, by a majority of two, endorsed the President's Hawaiian policy, urging the States to keep aloof from any foreign entanglements. Paris, January 20. Obituary — Marshall Canrobert, <etat 85. [T" 0 deceased officer was one of the best known of France's soldiers. He was Commauder-in-Chief of the Army of the East in the Crimea, and also led the French troops in the Italian war in 1859. At the capitulation of Metz he was sent prisoner into Germany, returning to France when the preliminaries of peace had been signed. After his army career he became a member of the French Senate.]