DELAYED CABLES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7416, 13 July 1895, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES.

London, July 10. Mr Houston, of the Newport Freezing Works, Victoria, addressed a meeting of importers at Manchester on Monday. He decLred Manchester to be the great pert for Australian produce, and, further, that it would reach through the market from Bevtn to ten million people to whom ths colonies would supply meat, butter, cheese and poultry in qualities the world could not excel, and at prices that others could not afford to sell at. He snggetted thit a joint committee should arrange to include tho wool market with the yorkshire factories A new company of steamers trading on the West Coast, conducted on mutual lines, was certain to elicit a hearty response. At the general request of the Bailway Congress Mr Eddy will ascertain tho experience in the use of light railways with regard to the carriage of produce. Mr Eddy has daily met numerous American experts, and disoussed with them all the latest inventions, not only in railway matters, but those including gram elevators, in respect to whioh tiuseia is eaid to be best supplied. July 11. The limes cout-iders that the proposal of the City of Melbourne Bank with regard to the reduotion of interest is an enormoui one in view of the fact that the depositors have already made large sacrifices, and that it, is not possible to justify tho deminds of the shareholders until tha entire deposits have been paid. . . Lord Btassey, Governor of Victoria, in replying to the toast of his health at a farewell banquet in his honor, in referring to the colonies said it was always the eesmual duty of the Mother Coantry to give colonial products free and full access. Ottawa, July 11. The French section in the Dominion Cabinet have modified their demands with respect to the Manitoba schools, aud will bo satisfied if a Bill is introduced to remedy the disabilities uader which they allege the Roman Catholic schools suffer. The priests demand immediate control of the schools, and are inciting the people to hep them in this direction. It is believed a roligious raoe confliot ia developing.