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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 184, 4 February 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AFFAIRS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. THE NIGER COMPANY. THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE. DIRECTORS OF A BUILDING SOCIETY IN TROUBLE. . RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN STATE SCHOOLS. THE QUEEN of HAWAII ARRESTED FIERCE DEBATE IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. MADAME JONIAUX SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Per Press Association.) St John's, February 2. Sir W. V. Whiteney is forming coalition ministry in conjunction with the late Premier. London, February 2. New lias been received of a serious rising of the natives against the Nig«r Company, and that Akassa, one of the principal ports of entry has been looted. The Gulf of Bothnia's consignment of live cattle has been sold to the French War Office. The agents have wired for a further consignment, but this time to be sheep. Bishop Selwyn has been offered the See of Adelaide. Summonses have been issued at the instance of the Official Receiver against four directors and the auditor of the Liberator Building Society for issuing false balance-sheets. The Observer considers the resolutions passed at Hobart show a desire for federation. In the event of the appeal in the case of the Bank of South Australia in liquidation, being defeated, the Union Bank of Australia intend to apply to the Courts to order a call of £15. The Primate, Dr Benson, speaking at Canterbury, referred to some of the published statistics in Victoria with regard to crime, and stated that the absence of religious teaching in the State schools in Victoria was, to his mind, responsible for a great increase in juvenile crime. The policy of not permitting religious teaching was, he thought, rediculous, if not dreadful. ISew York. February 2 The Queen of Hawaii has been arrested on a charge of complicity with the rebels in the recent rising. Paris, February 3. A fierce debate took place in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday the Government being violently attacked over a contract given to an English firm for the transport of war material to Madagascar though 600,000 francs (£24,000) were saved by it. The Socialists and Protectionists were loud with abusive epithets against England. Belssels, February 3. Madame Joniaux has been sentenced to death for poisoning a number of her relatives.