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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 245, 19 April 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MELBOURNE MERCANTILE BANK. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. NEWFOUNDLAND AND CANADA. (Per Press Association"). London, April 18. Mr Loader, of the Melbourne Mercantile Bank, has twice visited Scotland, but the holidays interfered with t'ne issue of a formal proposal to the depositors re accepting some concession. A fire in Harland's ship yards, Belfast, caused damage to the extent of £20,000 McCann and Callaghan, concerned in the attempt to destroy the Glasgow gasometer during the large strike a few years back, have been released from custody. The boot strike leaders affirm that a conference will be useless, and say they prefer to starye to death rather than they should yield. Mr Gillies, Victorian Agent-General, is reported to have stated that if the Premier insists on keeping the expenses of bis office down to 1"2000 it will involve the closing of the establishment. Washington, April 16. The Government has informed Britain that it regards the landing of British tvoops at Nicaragua as inimical to the interests of the United States. i The American Government declines to interfere on behalf of Nicaragua. Paris, April 18. A section of the French press nr^es the European Powers to unite for the purpose of establishing an economic and industrial defence against the United States. Ottawa, April IS. In the terms of the union between Canada and Newfoundland, the Dominion guarantees the debt of the latter, and also her mail subsides.