HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 203, 29 February 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN THE EAST. POLITICAL CRISIS IN SPAIN. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. FURTHER ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA. (Prcn Press Association). London, Feb. 27. s Tho Bank of Now Zealand Estates • Company proposes to pay off .£750,000 for debentures in June, with o, 3 per cent bouns. Tin; Auckland Agricultural Company , similarly will pay off -IHOO.OOO, with a . bonus varying according to the nature of the debentures. ; Tho cable commission will not meet - till April. Obituary— Octavms Morgan. Tin; new rules of procedure were car- : ried by 202 to 05. The Hon A. J. Bal- : four reserved to tho House tho power to : extend the time limit to three days, and agreed to review the proposals if it were - found impossible to put all uudebated • votes in globo at the expiry of tbe time i limit. The Rev Charles Clark sails by the . Oroya for Australia. Mr Cnv/.ou, Under-Secrctary for Foreign Affairs, stated iv tho House that j Russia had stationed five additional wari ships in the China seas last year. Lord Dunraven has resigned his mem- I i bcrship of the New York Yacht Club. Mr Warner, Radical, has been elected • by a majority of 528 votes for the Lich- ; field scat, rendered vacant by the dis- . qualification of Mr Fulford, Radical, for bribery. It is intended to reserve for the Royal assent the Bill passed by the Maltese Government imposing a duty on frozen meat. The prospectus of the Kathleen Crowu . mine, liauraki, with a capital of £75,900 3 lias been issued. The whole of the shares are now being offered to the - public. Paris, Feb. 28. The Chamber of Deputies has approved r the settlement regarding Siam. Constantinople, Feb. 28. The Sultan offered to pardon Marad - Bey conditionally on his undertaking ; not to continue bis attacks on Turkey , in the press. Murad refused the offer. Madrid, Febr. 27. The Cortes has dissolved over tbe Cuban question.