HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 194, 15 February 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE BALTIC AND NORTH SE\ ! CANAL. THE PACIFIC CABLE. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. THE ELBE DISASTER. ; THE SITUATION IN TURKEY. AMERICAN FINANCE. PRESS CORRUPTION. (Per Press Association). London, February 13. Up to the present the Canadian Government has not made any overtures with reference to the appointment of a joint commission on the Pacific cable question. The London Felhnongers Company's wool warehouse at Bermondsey has been destroyed by fire. The Board of trade has ordered an enquiry into the Elbe-Grathie collision. Constantinople, Feb. 14. The Turkish Government deny that the military reserves are being called out. Washington, February 14. The Committee of the House of Representatives to whom were referred the new proposals for the relief of the financial pressure, embodying the issue of a 62£ million dollar loan of 30 years, bearing 4 per cent, payable in coin, with the option of substituting 3 per cent bonds, payable in gold, report that they favour 3 per cent bonds in preference to 4 per cents. Paris, Feb. 14. The trial of seven city editors, on a charge of attempting to levy blackmail, has begun. Berlin, February 14, The Emperor of Germany will open'tbe canal from the Baltic to the North Sea in June. [The canal starts from Holtenau, on the north side of Kiel Bay, and joins the Elbe 5 miles above its mouth. It is 61 miles long. The cost is estimated at £8,000,000.]