HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5092, 30 September 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Received September 30, at 10.30 a.m.] London. September 29. Arrived—Morayshire, s.s., from Auckland (August 9th); Bonny Doon, barque, from Wellington (June 17th); Gleneda, barque, from Lyttelton (June 12th); (at New York) Alice., barque, from Auckland (June 7th). Berlin, September 29. The Chancellor, Yon Caprivi. states that no cloud darkens the political horizon now. The German Gazette, commenting on the national outcry against Germans assisting to float the Russian loan, says that the attitude of the Government should be neutral. Colonel Weissman censures Emin Bay for executing the slave traders at Tahora. He fears that it will cause severe fighting with the Arabs. The relaxation of the passport regulation was the spontaneous act of the Kaiser, who had decided on it previous to the visit of the French fleet to Cronstadt. Vienna, September 29. The Empercr of Austria, during his visit to Prague, rebuked the recent Pan • Slavist demonstrations as unpatriotic. Received September 30, at 10.50 a.m.] London, September 29. A. contract has been arranged for carrying 18,000 tons of Queensland frozen meat annually for five years. The freight for beef is to be fd per lb and for mutton and lamb 1 and 3-16 His of a penny per lb. It is reported that a company is being formed in Liverpool to erect a pepsin e factory in Australia. An impression is abroad that the Bank of England will decline to issue another colonial loan for a considerable time. The Hon. J. W. Fortesque, in a letter to the Anti-Jacobite, says that an Australian Agent-General, or Minister of the Crown, ought to have answered the charges he made against colonists in his article on the "Seamy side of Australia." He asserts that there are many objections to employing Governors as stalking horses for the approach of a spy of the British investor. Rome, September 29. By a lire in the city, damage was done to the extent of L 35,000. •