HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association .1 London, July 7. At the annual meeting of the National Bank of New Zealand, Mr J. Macandrew (chairman) said they had a large access of business since the absorption of the Colonial Bank by the Bank of New Zealand. The Leander crew beat the Yale crew in the first heat of the grand challenge cup at Henley. In the trial of Hyatt and Henochsberg's dry gold saving process 96 per cent, of precious metal was extracted. The Tainui arriyed at Plymouth this morning with her meat in good condion. In the Commons, Lord Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, moved that the ordinary pay allowances of the Suakim contingent from India be paid for six months by the Indian Government, and in doiag so said there were abundant precedents for the step Government was taking in the matter. The resolution was carried by a majority of 146. Three hundred and fifty members of the Honorable Artillery of Boston, who are visiting LondoD, have been permitted to march the streets with their arms and carrying flags. They are being largely feted in town, and Her Majesty has consented to receive them. The imports for June show an increase of £1,335,000, and the exports an increase of £2,735,000. It was the Rev Colmer Symes, formerly of Adelaide, whose death was announced not Colmer, the winner of the Statists prize. Obituary — Sir J. Pender. Thirty thousand British miners have refused the reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. The House of Lords has passed the Diseased Animals Bill. Honolulu, July 7. The earthquake wave, which devastated the coast of Japan, rose thirty-five feet in the Hawaiian Islands. Cairo, July 8. Cholera has broken out at Ambigol and Akaehele. Paris, July 8. The Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 28, rejected the Badical Income Tax. New York, July 8. I The Democratic Convention, sitting at Chicago, has elected Mr Daniel, of Chicago, and a supporter of the silver currency, temporary chairman by a majority of 207. Buda Pesth, July 8. The tariff committee of the Telegraph Convention recommend that fifteen letters or five figures should form one word for cables. The Conference 1b certain to endorse the recommendation. Sofia, July 8. Bulgarian newspapers report that a defence alliance between Servia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro has been entered into under the patronage of Kussia.