HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 279, 30 May 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK. COLONIAL JUDGES AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL. THE LAW RELATING TO DIVORCE. M. PASTEUR DECLINES AN HONOR. THE BANK-NOTE FORGERIES. (PER PEESS ASSOCIATION!. London, May 29. Arrived — Moravshire from New Zealand, Stratford from Lyttelton, and Carlisle from the Bluff. The scheme proposed by the directors of the City of Melbourne Rank for the reduction of the interest payable to depositors is not definitely completed. A provisional one is now being submitted to the leading depositors. The Times says that the result of Lord Rosebery's Council Judges (Privy Council) Bill will be that the Canadian Chief Justice will occasionally sit on the Council, while retiring Chief Justices from distant colonies at present living in London will be summoned to discuss African and Australian appeals. In the House of Lords, a Bill intro- I dnced by Lord Halifax releasing Anglican priests from marrying divorced persons and removing compulsion to permit the use of a church when adultery has been proved was read a second time. The American Howard has been committed for trial in connection with the scheme for the extensive forgery of bank notes which came to light recently. Howard protested his innocence of any attempt at fraud. His defence was that he was connected with several American inventions, and was trying to obtain from the German Goyernment a bonus for a method of printing bank notes which would increase the difficulty of forgery. Berlin, May 29. M. Pasteur has declined the Emperor's offer to be decorated with the Prussian Order of Merit. Washington, May 29 Mr T. F. Bayard, United States representative in London, is likely to succeed the late Mr Gresham, as Secretary of State. ____