LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 112, 16 February 1894, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Pretis Association.! Deceived 0.50 a.m. Ottawa, February 13. ! Mr McKenzie Bowell, Minister for Trade, < who recently visited Australia, addressing % meeting of the Manufacturers' Associa- j tion in Toronto, announced that the Go- i vemment was prepared to send a fresh agent to Australia to take charge of i American trading affairs. The Governnient. he said, would support the construction of the Pacific cable on certain ! conditions. A conference on th© matter between j Australia and Canada, in which Hawaii will probably join, will take place at j Ottawa in Jane. Paris, February 15. j An official report received from the j French officer* regarding the second Sierra Leone incident, accuses the British j of seeking to force village# under French influence to construct wart. The French J police intervened when the British troops j were attacked, but were repulsed. St. Petersburg, February 15. Many journalists have been arrested in i Warsaw on wuspicion of being ananffHsts. j Berlin, February 15. i The Emperor has set up a commission I to discuss measures for raising the value ; qf silver. Paris, February 15. j The French police declare that Breton | was th f Agent of an international society \ of Anarchists, which has its headquarters in Bonder. Belgrade, February 15. There ia a feeling throughout Servia to resent the summary dismissal of the Ministry by King Alexander, and the alleged return of the latter's father, ex-King Milan, n catastrophe is regarded as imminent. London, February 15. The American visible supply of wheat is 9H.600.000 bushels. Three months' bill* aro discounted at 1 , per cent. Shareholders in English. Scotch, and Australian Banks have opposed a bill to pay interest to depositors during the time of suspension of the bank. Sir W. \V. Harcourt, speaking at Portsmouth. made a virulent attack on the House of Lord*, and recalled the reform riots and burnings in Nottingham. He wa* especially bitter against the Marquis of Salisbury and Mr Chamberlain. A Glasgow company has informed Mr Hume Black, of Queensland, that they are willing to take a quarter of a million pounds worth of guaranteed sugar debentures when issued. In the Chancery Division of the High | Court of Justice Sir Robert Rower held that the Government manufacture of cordite had not infringed Nobles patent. Received 10.20 a.m. London, Feb. 16. ( apt. Audley Cook has stated the international Pacific cadle will secure 76 per , cant of the English business. He returns to Australia shortly to submit a scheme for tba construction of the cable. Paris, Feb. 15. The Freneh police report there are 22 anarchiets living in London who are | wanted for deeds of violence on the . Continent. Breton’s real name is Camille • Henri. He avers he acted without cou- | federate*. IUK IMi 1 • .16. A tamer named Sherman was perform|mg with lions in San Francisco by electric light when it suddenly went out, ; The animal* immediately sprung upon Sherman and badly worried him. Rio de Janeiro, Feb 15. Yellow fever ha* broken out among the shipping in port. llongkono, l'eb. 15. i A disastrous fire occurred at Soocliou in China. Fifteen hundred house* wer< I burned.