HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 284, 5 June 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE ARMENIAN COMMISSION. AUSTRALIAN REFORM BILL. 1 NEW FERTILE COUNTRY. THE HOME PRESS AND THE < COLONIES. I OPPOSITION TO A STATE BANK. \ (Per x J rcss Association.) Capktown, Juue 4. A party of explorers who have been " Trekking " in the north, report the discovery of some splendid fertile country beyond Kalahari desert, excelling the Transvaal in suitability for settlement. The Scotsman tidvises investors not to assist the Victorian Government to found a Stnte Bank, which will injure existing banks. .London, June 4. The New York correspondent of the Daily News reports that the free silver agitation is declining in the south and west. The Times considers New South Wales and Victoria are of all the colonies those most interested in Federation. Sir Henry Parkes does not take his own position seriously, and has allowed personalties to distract him from what might have been the crowning work of his life. Party quarrels have stopped the movement, and if Victoria is unable to lead it, it will prove that Australia is not yet ripe for union. Miss Emily Faithful!, the well-known advocate of the amelioration of the condition of women, has just died at the r/ge of sixty. Reports are current here that the Grand Vizier (Djevad Pasha) has resigned, on account of the Sultan's disposition to yield to the Powers upon the Armenian question. Vienna. June 4. The Austrian Reform Bill grants small tax-payers thirty four seats in the Reichstrath and the working class thirteen. It is not believed this concession will satisfy popular demands.