HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 119, 18 November 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN FLEETS. [Per Press Association] London, Nov. 16. The Cable Commission is examining Mr Siemens. It has arranged to sit four days a week. Dr Leyds, Foreign Secretary of the Transvaal, states the raid cost the Boer Government L 168.000. It is expected the olaim for indemnity will not exceed this amount. The Spanish Government has purchased the Guion liner Alaska and coDyerted her into a transport. The employers have consented to meet the wages of the Board of dockers Union. The fiollee machine which finished first took a shore cut, owing to the crowded state of the road, and thus avoided several miles of the net distance. The Marquis of Huntley has been reelecced to the Rectorship of the University of Aberdeen. The Press generally laud the advent ot the motor cars, and the Times states they are destined to tak« a great part in the future transport of passengers and goods. The Times' Capetown correspondent states that the Transvaal claim for indemnity is unlikely to cause embarrassment in any quarter. Arrived — Hudson, from Auckland, on June 24th. Sailed — American for Dunedin. Silver is quoted at 2s 6d per oz. Paris, Nov. 16. An agitation is on foot tn Paris to increase the fleet to an extent sufficient to ruin England's commerce in case of war. It is now found the embezzlements from the Credit Lyonnaise amount to L 480.000, fresh discoveries being made daily. Berlin, November 16. The Bavarian Government has largely modified the regulations guiding the practice of duelling in the Army. Calcutta, Nov. 17. The number of those employed on the relief works throughout India is 120,000. Madrid, Nov. 17. The announcement of a loan for H.ome purposes has occasioned a patriotic outburst, and many ladies are selling their jewellery in order to provide funds to subscribe towfuds it. The Spanish loan has been oversubscribed. Ottawa, November 17. The duties imposed for Protection pur- ; poses have been abolished. Mr Barnato, of South Africa, has secured the central of the mines in Ontario for a quarter of a million sterling. Suakim, November 16. The Dervishes raided Tekar and killed five people. New York, November 17. Niagara falls are being utilised as a motor power for electric lighting and street conveyance in Buffalo. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. The Government propose to expend eight million roubles on the navy during the next decade.