SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5207, 13 February 1892, Page 3

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

(Bv Electric Telegraph—Copvright.) (special to press association. ) Received February 12, at 8 p.m,] London. February 11. j Tn the House of Commons Mr Balfour moved that De Cobain be required to attend in his place on February 23rd. He declined to afford any protection to him pending a statement upon the charges against him. At a meeting of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Mr H. R. Grenfell, Chairman, said that the Agent-General for New Zealand had stated that the Government did not intend to tax the debentures of shareholders. He urged that the Company should go into liquidation or amalgamate with a larger Company. General Booth has arrived at Paris. In conversation with an interviewer, he said the prosperity of Australia was of mushroom growth. Little attention was paid there to religious matters. Inconsequence of the execution of the Aeres marauders, Anarchists in that town are in a state of excitement. More bombs were thrown, and numerous arrests have lieen made in the town. Their comrades threaten reprisals for their execution, and Anarchists from Paris are joining 'heir ranks. Immense fields of saltpetre have been found in German Africa. The Russian squadron in the Levant have been ordered to cruise in company with the French fleet. The controllers of five leading and adjacent railways in the centre of the United j-tates have determined to join forces, ihev expect to save LS00,00() and raono•n,B '' lo carr ' a S e anthracite coal. The rebels are reported to be rising in Ri° Grande and Santo Catalina, 111 Brazil, and to have deposed the Governors of those States. Wilder instructions from the Government.the medical department is inquiring wto the influenza epidemic.