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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 275, 25 May 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

« COLONIAL STOCKS. THE N.S.W. GOVERNORSHIP. JABEZ BALFOUR. NEW PLYMOUTH BONDHOLDERS. OTAGO INVESTMENT COMPANY. BIMETALLISM. THE SLAVE TRADE. [Per Press Association] Ijondon, May 23. The holders of New Plymouth Harbor Board bonds have induced a section of brokers to petition the Sock Exchange not to quote New Zealand 3 per cent, stock. At a meeting of the Otago nnd Southland Investment Company, Mr James Jackson, who presided said the last debenture issue by the company resulted in £92.000 being subscribed. £265,000 worth of debentures expired in the year and these would be renewed at 63, the remainder being paid. The Employers' Union has resolved that any interference by Government in the matter of wages, either as to a fixed minimum or any other scale, is detrimental to the interests of both employers and employed. Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing a meeting in the City, appealed to the experience of fifty years in favor of a gold standard, and said the Government would never fayor bi-mctallism on any conditions. New South Wales 4 per cents.. 115:} ; 8_ do, 105 ; Victorian, 106 and 101 ; South Australian, 109 and 104 : Queensland, 110 and 102 ; New Zealand, 110Annd 104; Tasmanian, 3i per cent., 104; West Australian, 4 per cents. 118. May 24. In order to counteract the operations of the Bimetallic League a Parliamentary Committee is being formed to maintain gold as the monetary standard. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Local Board in the last Salisbury Administration was elected unopposed for the seat at Croydon rendered vacant by the resignation of the Hon. S. Herbert. It is rumoured in official circles that the Earl of Glasgow will succeed the late Sir R. Duff as Governor of New South Wales. Jabez Balfour has been committed to stand his trial at the June sessions on sis charges. Lord Roberts has been promoted to the position of Field-Marshal. The Rev Hood Wilson, of Edinburgh, has been elected moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. Washington, May 23. The directors of the United States mint have increased the gold output, especially of Australian gold, and disposed of the coutentiou of supporters of silver as to the insufficiency of gold. BERLIN, May 23. Tbc Reichstag has approved a Bill to abolish slave trading in the territory in Africa over which Germany has placed a protectorate.