HUME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 190, 11 February 1895, Page 2

HUME & FOREIGN CABLES.

REFORM IN RUSSIA. THE HAWAIIAN REVOLT. AMERICAN FINANCE. | THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. THE SALE OF CARBINE. 1 SEVERE WEATHER IN AMERICA, j AMERICA AND ENGLAND. (Per Press Association). London, February 9. Mr Day, the Duke of Portland's stud groom, has left for Australia to take charge of the stallion Carbine on the homeward route. Lord Brassey's appointment as Governor of Victoria is gazetted. Washington', February 10. Many people and thousands of horses and cattle in the Western States are dying from cold. Wild animals are taking refuge among the settlements. The fruit crop in Florida is ruined. Senator Morgan declares that Great Britain is plotting to obtain Pearl Harbour iv the Sandwich Islands, in order to convert it into a Gibraltar of the Pacific. Garlick and Seward (Americans), aud Rickards (Englishman 1, have been sentenced to death in Hawaii for complicity in the revolt. President Cleveland demanded the stay oi' proceedings, pending further enquiry. The President in a further message to Congress, announces the issue of a sixtytwo and a half million dollars loan of thirty years, bearing 4 per cent payable in coin with option to substitute 3 per cent bonds payable in gold. Should the Congress sanction the issue within teu days it will be provided for by the delivery of three and a half million ouuees of foreign gold, which relieves the Treasury until April. The Senate has authorised the President to enter into a contract for a cable to Hawaii at a cost of three million dollars aud voted half a million towards the preliminary expense. St. Petersburg, February 8 The Czar intends to issue a decree for free and compulsory education. Constantinople, Feb. s The English, French, and Russian Ambassadors have protested to the Porte against obstructing witnesses giving evidence with regard to alleged atrocities in Armenia. Madrid, February 11. The new Spanish corn duties have been passed.