AMERICAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1197, 8 February 1895, Page 36

AMERICAN.

Washington, January 31. Tho Banking 4 Committee of the Lower House has adoptod the Bond Bill, containing the President’s financial proposals. In committee in the Senate an amendment has been tabled to appropriate half a million dollars to tho cost of laying tho proposod cable to Hawaii. Washington, February 1, The reserve of gold in the American treasury has sunk to 42,000,000 dollars. London, February 3,,. Bankers here and on tho Continent will probably take tho unallotted balance of tho United States bonds. The American Treasury, it is said, is printing bonds to the amount of five hundred million dollars, and President Cleveland is alleged to havo declared that he will issue them all if necessary. New York, January 30. A trust with capital of <£(5,000,000 has been formed here to control the chief harbour stores and grain elevators. Those havo a water frontage of throo nnlos, and stops will be taken to prevent competition. New York, February 2. Tho Queen of Hawaii has beon arrested on a charge of complicity with tho rebels in tho recent rising. [New comes by the R.M.S. Arawa that the Hawaiian rebellion collapsed, and that the Government troops captured a considerable numbor of tho robel party.]