TELEGRAPHIC.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 739, 18 May 1894, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

Cable News Condensed. Million and half pounds promised to N. Z. Midland Railway Company. Reid, Victorian delegate, enthusiastically received at Toronto. Premier of the Dominion says Canadians are united in desire for closer relations with Australia. Engineers approved scheme for canal from Goole, on the Humber, to Wake field, Yorkshire. Estimated cost £6,000,000. Hogan, M.P., enquring why Colonials who have qualified in Great Britain are ineligible as adjutants in British volunteers and other forces. French Chamber of Deputies insists on extradition of Dr Herz. Electric railway opened at Nantes, Normandy. Hellmann locomotive expected to travel 75 miles an hour. Hungarian Upper Chamber rejected Civil Marriage Bill. London Meat Committee urges improvement of refrigerating machinery. Reported 5000JBurghers at Johannesburg organised expedition to punish Swazi chiefs for opposing annexation of Transvaal. Hemp market easier. Fair to good Wellington £l5 15s! Dilke advises Govt to continue session for entire year and pass Evicted Tenants’ Bill, also measure for Disestablishment of Church in Wales. He suggests early in 1895 Govt should introduce measure limiting exercise of veto by House of Lords, and then dissolve. C. J. Hogan withdrawn from Board of Directors of N. Z. Loan Coy. Sir G. Grey says he hopes to see federation of Anglo-Saxon race brought about, with Colonial delegates in Imperial Parliament. Harcourt, in reply to Goschen, said that, seeing that latter was advocate of Imperial Federation, be was unable to understand his contempt for Australian finance. Land of Colonies was really their capital. Inhabitants of Great Britain were daily becoming more desirous of obtaining similar unfettered land laws, and surely Goschen did not want to exclude frozen mutton. Bishop of Bathurst, speaking at Thirsk, said there was splendid opening for investment in real estate in Sydney. £1,000,000 now would probable bn worth 5 m a few years. Scheme being- formed in London to establish Export Bacon Curing Factory at Warrnambool, Victoria. Dutch are packing margarine in boxes shaped similarly to those used for Australian butter. U. S. Congress intends asking England to permit slaughter of imported cattle at port of entry. Mutton market dull; price declined £d since last report. Among those arrested on suspicion of being concerned in vast Nihilist conspiracy, discovered in St Petersburg, are important Govt officials, priests, bankers, members of society and friends of political liberty. In arresting number of women in Moscow, in connection with the conspiracy, many were almost in state of nudity before their capture was effected. 5 year old child caught in machinery of flour mill in N. S. Wales and torn to atoms. Sydney banks reduced deposit rate of interest to 4 per cent, also decided to discontine receiving 3 month’s deposits. Miners warned against going to Goolgardie before railway is extended there, which will take 12 dr 18 months. (How about those who can’t pay for a ticket ?)