NEWS OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10558, 7 March 1896, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD

British and Foreign Telegrams. CABLE MESSAGES. By Electric Telegraph— United Press Association Copyright — Received 7/5/95 — 12.50 p.m. ANOTHER MINING COMPANY. London, March 6. The Southern Star Gold Mining Company of Hauraki with a capital £600,000 ia issuing half the amount to the public, * DAIRY PRODUCE AT HOME. New Zealand cheese is quoted at 40s, market dull. Butter shows a fair business at a slight decline. Danish is quoted at 109s f Colonial, prime, 96s to 100s ; occasional lots sold at 102s. THE WOOL SALE. At to-day's wool sales a good selection was offered. All prices showed an upward tendency. Tbe Bradford market is at a standstill, top makers asking a penny advance. FRENCH PRESIDENT MAKING HIMSELF AGREEABLE. Paris, March 6. President Paure met the Emperor of Austria at Mentone, and had an interview with him of a friendly character RUSSIAN PACIFIC SQUADRON. St Petersburg, March 6. Russia has fixed her Pacific squadron at seven first-class cruisers, including the Rurik, two-second-class, and five gupboats, and has increased their armaments. CANADIAN REPRESENTATIVES TO CABLE CONFERENCE. Ottawa, March 6. The Hon. MacKenzie Bowe 1 !, Premier, and the Hon. Sandford Fleming, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, will be the Canadian representative to the Imperial Cable Conference. THE COMING FAVOURITE. Frossard's Cavour Cigars, in packets of 8 for Is, are in a fair way of superseding all other cigars. In Australia they are the popular weed of tlie day, and being now obtainable also in New Zealand at Is per packet, their success is undoubted, as, at the price, nothing can approach them for mildness and fragrnncy,