HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 181, 31 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

T H E PACIFIC O A B L E SILVER COINAGE IN AMEUICt. OPPOSITION TO HOME RULE. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. \ RISE IN SILVER MINE SHARES. i THE TRAINING SHIP STEIN ! THE TRANSVAAL. (PER PllKs> ASSOCIATION.! London, January 29 The prices of frozen meat is abnormal owinij to the railways being blocked with snow. The Broken Hill silver mine shares made a sharp rise. The Proprietary are quoted at 8 s others in proportion. Several l>irf*H orders have been received for German beet sugar on a basis of 12s per cwt. C.i f Lord Lansdosvne, ex-Viceroy of. India, is addressing Conservative audiences in opposition to Home Rule. Ottawa, January 30. The Canadian Government lias asked the views of the Australian Colonies relative to the construction of the PaciGc cable at the cost of the States interested in the enterprise, and ban also forwarded a tender offering to lay the cable more quickly than an. previou>ly proposed Capetown. January 29. President Kruger, of the rtouth .African Republic, in the course of a speech at a banquet tendered to him at Pretoria, said it was necessary to form the closest union with Germany. He compared the Trans vaal to a child creeping between the Powers. If one kicked is, it would seek the help of others. Berlin January 30 The trainiHfr ship Stein, supposed Jo i have foundered m the Mediterranean, is ' safe. Washington*, January 30. The President's policy is unlikely to be accepted by the Seu.ite, unless provision is made for the unlimited-coinage of silver.