HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 107, 2 November 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. THE CRISIS IN TURKEY. FURTHER FIGHTING IN CHINA. (Per Press Association). London, Oct. 31. Mr P. Hnnt io forming a company to work the Auckland trams by electricity, and also for purchasing the interests of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company. Mr Justin Vaughan Williams bas sanctioned the reduction of the Anglo-Austra-han Steam Navigation Co. by £184,000. News has been received from the Gold Coast that the Ashantees have rejected the British ultimatum with respect to the threatened war, and it is therefore unlikely that an expedition will be arranged by Sir F. C. Scott, Commandant of the Gold Coast, who will shortly proceed against them. The Gothic's chilled meat was a complete success. The temperature throughout was 28 3-6 th to 26£ degrees. The greatest variation was a quarter of a degree. The Turks, alleging danger of a massacre, compelled the American missionaries to leave Sassoum. In response to the demands of the embassies troops were sent there to protect foreigners. At a meeting attended by twelve importers the formation of a Frozen Meat Association was confirmed. The Moslems have captured Lancbawfan, capital of Kash, and are defeating the Chinese throughout the Province. Shanghai, October 31. The Japanese are evacuating Liatong Peninsula. Germany has obtained a concesion in land at Tientsin for trading and factory purposes. Paris, Oct. 1. M. Bourgeois proposes to create a colonial army and modify the Madagascar treaty. Hanoteau refused to consent to the alteration in the direction of annexing the Island. The new Ministry is purely a Radical one. Sofia, Nov. 1. Ferdinand declining to promise his son Boris should be baptised in the orthodox Greek faith, Stoiloff, Premier, resigned, but the Prince refused to accept.