CABLE NEWTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIV, Issue 3222, 12 September 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWTS.

ByEtEOTBIO TfiLEQIUPH—CoPVRIOHX.

(UNITED PRESS AS8OOIAT1ON.)

mv tt LOND °N. September 11. The House and Land Investment Trnsr, which bas suspended payment, is con neoted with- tbe London General Bank (alßo suspended), of which Mr. Jabey Spencer Balfour is ohairmao. The Daily Telesraph states that the House and Land Trust liability is £2,250,000, and that the total liabilities oi the suspended companies, inoluding tbe Permanent Building and Investment Sooiefcy and London General Bank, amount to i?, 000,000. These failures are severely felt throughout tbe United Kingdom.

Importers in the city warmly approve of the proposed appointment of an expert to examine and class New Zealand pro. duoe.

OTTAWA, September 11. Hedley, a suburb of Quebec, waß burned and 120 families rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. VIENNA, September 11. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Destestartg on a tour of tbe world in an Austrian warship in Deoembe. He will visit Australia and New Zealand. , OTTAWA, September 10. \ Sir J. J. O. Abbott, Premier of Canada, will shortly pay a visit to England for tbe benefit of bis health. PERTH, September 11. With regard to the London cablegram that the crew of the barque Windermere, bound from Glasgow to Freemantle, bad broken out in mutiny and murdered the oaptam, the vesael has now arrived at Freemantle, and it appears that the captain died on the voyage, and the faot was signalled to a passing Italian vessel, Which, it is supposed, misread signal, MELBOURNE, September 12. Tbe dispute' between the Government and Captain Whitney has resulted in thi 1 closing of colonial ammunition faotoryS The Government imported a million rounds recently, consequently the demand within next few months will be insufficient to keep the factory going. ♦ ADELAIDE, September 12. The Government of New South Walei has requested tbe Government of Sontb Australia to facilitate movements of polios sent to Broken Hill. The Ministry, bow ever, deolined, adopting what is called a policy of strict neutrality. Probably thii aot of discourtesy towards a friendly Government will be ventilated in the Assembly.

The contractor. Baker, is unable to obtain men at Broken Hill, and has go*s to Melbourne to bring up his own men.C BRISBANE, September 12. > «*, Perrett, who was arrested on snsnfoion of beiog a Russian spy, bas obtained the expenses caused by his arrest from the Government.