HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 225, 26 March 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

FAMINE IN ALGERIA. ANOTHER REBELLION IN COREA. GREAT HURRICANE IN FIJI. MR VALENTINE ON COLONIAL PRODUCE. (Per Press Association). London, March 25. On arrival at Vancouver the Warrimoo reported that a great hurricane has been experienced in Fiji Island, and when the vessel left it was feared that Navifci, Levu, the largest of the group, was completely devasted. Mr Valentine, speaking at the Society of Arts, said the Australasian butter trade would be profitable in the face of any competition, and bacon ought to develop into an important industry. Rabbits should be able to defy competition, and eggs ought to displace imports from the Continent axcept from France. Sir J. Gorst has resigned the Presidency of the Colonial Party in the House of Commons. A Bill brought forward by the London County Council to enable it to acquire the property of the water companies, was rejected by ft large majority in the Commons. Paris, March 25. The drought is causing famine in Algeria. France has requested China to con. struct a railway northward from Lunchan, on the Tonquin frontier, to neutralise the benefits derived by Great Britain from the opening up of the West River for trade. The Senate has sanctioned the laying of a cable from France to America and the West Indies. Hong Kong, March 24. The Coreans are harassing the troops and the Japanese have sent warships to quell the rebellion. Ottawa. March 25. | Sir Charles Tupper supports MrNeil's i resolution in favour of taxing foreign produce.