UNION BANK OP AUSTRALIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 26, 30 July 1895, Page 2

UNION BANK OP AUSTRALIA.

RISE IN COLONIAL STOCKS. FORTS AT PORT ARTHUR DESTROYED. CONFLICT BETWEEN TURKS AND MACEDONIANS. LEONARD HARPER'S CASE. (Per Press Association.) Tokio, July 28. The Japanese troops have destroyed forts at Port Arthur. Sofia, July 29. News has been received here that the Macedonians defeated the Turks and captured and burned Menlik. London, July 29. Leonard Harper leaves for New Zealand in custody on August Bth. At the hearing of the case counsel for the prosecution stated accused was anxious to return. It is reported that prior to leaving office, Lord Ripon sanctioned a scheme for federating Malay States except Johore under the Resident General. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia, Mr A. Flower, chairman, said there were some signs of improvement in the colonies. The Directors were reducing expenses. The liquidator of the Bank of South Australia had paid, roughly speaking, £'600,--000 out of £4O(\_(HV^dTi&W7St€6til6ra. ISf-jiv South Wales stocks have risen one-quarter and the other colonies' onehalf to thsrr-qnarters per cent. The Times says that during the last six ruouths the private deposits in the ' Bank of England have increased by 1 £'8,000,000. Great Britain now retains £50,000,000 every year which was formerly employed abroad. ]n commenting on the New South Wales election, the Advertiser says that owing to its all-powerful rampant demo* ' cracy, that colony is fast approaching a ' condition of affairs when the possession of property will be treated as a crime, as the Labor Party virtually controls [ the Legislative Assembly. r The Kaiser arrives in England on I Saturday. He will visit the Lake district, aud afterwards attend a review at f Aldershot.