British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9722, 13 June 1893, Page 2

British and Foreign Telegrams

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COLOMAL PRODUCE TRADE.

London, June 12.

Mr Geddes, of Sydney, has arranged with a syndicate to run monthly steamers, beginning in October, to carry meat and fruit from Sydney to , England and Continental ports. He has also arranged that the steamer Port Chalmers shall take 10,000 carcases of mntton from Sydney in September. It is the intention of Mr Geddes to visit the Continent shortly. He is armed with letters to the British Embassies, and will seek interviews with the authorities in Germany, France, and Belgium as to the feasibility of introducing colonial products into.tlnse countries. SETTLERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Mr R. H. Glyn, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, is pushing on the colonising scheme, and founding agencies in various parts of the country.

QUEEN OF HAWAII.

Washington, June 11

[t is reported that the Queen of Hawaii has accepted the conditions laid down by tho United States, and will shortly be restored.

FIGHT WITH NEGRO FREE LABORERS.

« The white men on strike at Homont, in Illinois, are persisting in their assaults on the nogro free laborers. The latter fired on their assailants, when niue were killed and seventeen captured by the negros.