NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 25 June 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AM* FOREIGN. London, June 22. Tbe administrator of the Royal Bank of Queensland is privately offering depositors £BOO,OOO in 4 per cent debentures at par, redeemable in ten years at 108, Depositors converting before July will receive a bonus of 10s. The Government majority on division of clause 6 of the Welsh Disestablishment Church Bill fell to 7. It is reported that the Russian Government is devoting twenty millions sterling to the purchase of Suez Canal shares. Constantinople, June 22. The German Emperor strongly advises the Sultan to acquiesce in the demands of the Powers for immediate reforms in. Armenia, in order to avoid the humiliating position of having them enforced on them.

The Sultan regards the demand that the name of the Armenian Commission should first be submitted to the Powers as a violation of his sovereign rights. It is said the Pasha is in favor of accepting the plan which will satisfy the Powers, and threatens to resign unless the Sultan gives way. Berlin, June 22. The Kaiser’s speech at the opening of the canal was peaceful in tone. The Imperial yacht Hohenzollorn headed the procession through the canal at 4 a;m. amidst cheers. ■ Unlike those of other nations, the French officers refused to accept ho.-piUlty on Board the German warships. At Kiel twenty-four vessels crowded with distinguished personages, passed through the canal in eight hours without a mishap, except that an immense German-American liner and the yacht Osborne grounded for a short time. The Kaiser aroused remarkable enthusiasm by the splendid, stately pageant. The bands played the Marseillaise during the passage of the French warships. All the warships assembled at Holtman, in the Baltic, and saluted the Emperor’s vessel, the Hohenzoiiern. Sydney, June 22., The butter market is very firm. Dairymado from lid to Is Id ; factory' from Is Id to Is Bd.