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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 282, 3 June 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

«, PETROLEUM STORES BURNED. NEW ZEALAND FISH. THE FRENCH RAILWAY SCANDAL. THE STANDARD BANK. NEWFOUNDLAND AFFAIRS. P. AND O. COMPANY'S TRADE. (Per x J ress Association. 1 ) Hamburg, June 2. Lightning set fire to the petroleum stores in this city ; 5500 tnns of oil in tanks were burned besides 06,000 bnrrels. The damage is estimated at £100,000. Paeis, June 2. An animated debate has taken place in the Chamber of Deputies respecting the Southern railway scandals. MM. Guyot, Rouvier, Ronche, Delonele, Magnier, and Eiffel are amongst those alleged to be compromised. M. Tarieux, formerly Minister of Justice, declared it was not a penal offence for members of the Chamber of Deputies to join bond issuing syndicates. M. Gablet's amendment, consuring the Government for interfering with justice, was rejected by a majority of 15. London, June 2. Obituary— Violet Varley, (Mrs J. Tapley) the well-known actressi The Newfoundland Government has arranged to float a half-million 4 per cent, loan in London with a minimum of 94. The shipment of New Zealand eels and whitebait was worthless. The whitebait are considered to be too large and the eels coarse. At a meeting of the Edinburgh depositors in the Standard Bank of Australia, Mr Langton presiding, it was decided to accept a reduction in the rate of interest of 2i per cent., the balance to be secured by deposit receipts pajable in 1903. A meeting of all the Scotch depositors will shortly consider the question. The P. and O. Company's annual report speaks of the Australia export trade as improving, but homeward traffic is less productive. Two more steamers are being built superior to the Caledonia.