HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 233, 2 April 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

BRITISH REVENUE. SUCCESSFUL MORTGAGE COMPANY. i RISE IN SILVER. i _____ THE SPANISH CORTES. NEWFOUNDLAND JOINING THE DOMINION. PRINCE BISMARCK. THE CAPE GOVERNORSHIP. ADVANCES TO FARMERS. IPKB PBESB ASSOCIATION!. London, April 1. Dr Smith, Dean of Canterbury, is dead. The total British revenue, including local taxation of 17,000,000, is £101,---697,000. The actual surplus is about £750,000. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Agency has decided to alter its articles of association in order to enable it to give debenture-holders a specific charge on the uncalled capital. The chairman congratulated the company on its success, and declared the prospects bright. Owing to the armistice guarded by Japan there has been further speculation in silver, which has advanced Id per ounce. Ministers are seriously perturbed at the growing hostility, both here and at the Cape, to Sir H. Robinson's appointment as successor to Sir H. Loch. There is a motion to-night to adjourn ilie House of Commons in order to bring on a discussion upon the subject. Sir G Chesney has died suddenly of heart disease. [General Sir George T. Chesney joined the Bengal Engineers in 1848, and served throughout the siege of Delhi. His brochure " The Battle of Dorking," published anonymously in 1871, created a great sensation. J Beulin, April 1. A thousand presents and 200,000 letters have already been received by Prince Bismarck in honor of his birthday, and they continue to arrive from all quarters of the globe. Ottawa, April 1. Sir M. Bowell (the Canadian Premier), Sir A. P. Caron and Mr Foster meet the Newfoundland delegates to arrange the terms of the union, Lisbon, April 1. | Decrees have been issued reducing the number of members of the Cortes by 50, and stopping the representation of minorities. Paris, April 1. It is proposed to establish farmers' banks to make advances on land and produce, with a view to avoid being dependant on foreign supplies. itf-3-L; ___^>-_-iii--___aß3fct»-»"-J2(7'-B_n__fc