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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 132, 6 April 1894, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received 1 a.m. London, April o. Mr Robert I void with the Marquis of Dutferin’s assistance will interview the French Minister of Commerce, in Paris, with reference to the resumption of the import duties on frozen meat. Mr Reid recommends Sir Andrew t larke who has been acting as Agent-General for Victoria, to be appointed delegate to represent the colony at the Canadian conference. Sir Ilenry Loch has left Capetown for England. Experts are highly impressed with the quality of the Queensland silk cocoons. Paris, April 5.

A bomb exploded in the Cafe Fozot, , opposite Senate building. Several people | wore injured. Lisbon, April 5. j Admiral Dc Gama and other Brazilian i rebel otliceis will bo landed on Portugese | territory. Buenos Ayres, April 5. j The freemen in the Argentine have ■ appealed to ths Prince of Wales and President Peixoto ou behalf of the j Brazilian refugees. Paris, April 5. i During a squall near Ajaccio in Borsica, 1 the French warshipNethune with the Ad- t miral ou board narrow lymissed meeting the same rate as the Victoria. She collided with another vessel under similar circumstances to the Victoria-Caraperdowii affair, but the contact was very slight and no damage of any consequence resulted. Sir C. Tupper, Sir T. Mcllwraith, Mr Reid and tin* Agents General, with the exception of Sir J. Dray, of South Australia, and Mr Fraser, Western Australia, had an interview with Lord Itipon, Lord Roseberry being present. Sir C. Tupper asked that the Imperial Government should grant a subsidy to Mr Huddart's n»*w steamship line and the Pacitic cable, and also urged the extension of the Act of 1693 enabling all the colonies to conceed preferential relations with each other. Sir T. Mcllwraith spoke in support of the views expressed by Sir Charles Tupper, J and said he believed they had the sympathy of Lord Rosoberry. Lord Kipou said the Government would have to be : very cautious in comiiig to a decision in i regard to subsidies, and they must await j the result of the Ottawa Conference, at ; which Great Britain would be represented, i He regretted the obstacles that were placed in the way of colonial commerce by .the Belgium and Zollverien treaties, ; and warmly smpathised with the colonies j in the matter, but dealing with the subject i great caution was required. Washington, Aprils.

The House of Representatives has adopted Senator Bland's motion to pass the Seigniorage 'Coinage proposal after President Cleveland’s veto, but the required two third* majority was not secured. Received 10.43 a.m. London, April 5. The Melbourne Gas Company’s -L‘. per cent loan of X‘50,000 has been fully covered. Messrs Dalgety and Co have declared ■in biterirn dividend of 4 per cent per share. Mennier and another anarchist have been arrested in London on suspicion of being concerned in the explosion in the ( id. Very in 1892. Mennier was on the point rf leaving for Antwerp and was only It is believed i:i Paris that the bomb which exploded in th* Cafe Fozot v*eterdav

wa* to be placed in the Senate building but the explosion took place prematurely. A number of guests in the cate were injured including Mnlliude an anarchist poet. In his exami. >-i)u before Mr Justice Williams concerning ; N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Uoni pa ny. Hr Falconer Larkworthy said in 1890 ho reported that there were further deficits and that the reserves were exhausted, but the Board took no notice of the matter. Losses amounting to X 348,000 appeared on the balance sheet as an asset, and the statement of profits presented in 1889 included interest on that sum, although it had not been paid. Hu aided that only the Right Hon. A. J. Mandeb, one of the director supported him in proposing that an independent inspector should be employed to inspect the company's prop, ctios and report direct to the London Board. Mr Gladstone, whose sight is impaired through a cataract, will undergo an operation in June. New York, April 5. The Sheriff's troop* killed seventeen of the rioters at the Coke Works in Pennsylvania.