TELEGRAPHIC.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 790, 13 November 1894, Page 5

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LONDON, Nov 5

Board of Trade instructed Stewart, Official Receiver, to abandon action against Loan and Mercantile Agency Coys, directors. Final decision ns to the prosecution rests with Justice Williams.

At the invitation of Hon. Forrest, M.L.C. of Queensland, number of merchants inspected Queensland beef and dined off it at Imperial Institute. Forrest, said Colonies were large consumers of English goods, and they expected to get fair field for own products. He urged that Great Britain should foster Colonial trade to mutual advantage of both the Mother Country and her offshoots. She was compelled to import 32 per cent of meat, while Avstralia, exclusive of ,N. Z., scarcely supplied one per cent. Sir S. Samuel said they had no right to expect England to show them favor if it was not deserved. Colonial meat must be judged on its intrinsic merits, and if it could not stand the test it would suffer.

Chinese 7 per cent loan in London was oversubscribed.

Rev. F. Wallis, Bishop-designate of Wellington, created Doctor Divinity of Cambridge University. WASHINGTON, Nov 7

Returns from till the States are now in. They show that Democratic majority of 92 now in Congress is changed into Republican majority of over 30.

Wilson, tariff reformer, defeated in West Virginia.

SHANGHAI, Nov 7 Japanese are attacking Port Arthur by land and sea. War levy of 12s per bead proclaimed in Hankow. TOKIO, Nov 5 Japanese arrested two American interpreters belonging to the Chinese legation aboard Messageries-Maritime steamer Sydney at Yokohama. CALCUTTA, Nov 10 Owing to tyranny of the Rajab, natives in Nyaghurand Ovissa districts have broken out in revolt. Military and police despatched to quell the disturbance.