CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 30 March 1894, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

. 9 [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright). (By Our Special Reporter.) London, March 29. The wheat and flour afloat for Great Britain amount to 3,512,000 quarters; for the Continent, 1,100,000. Shares in the Union Steam Shipping Company are quoted at £8 ; New Zealand Shipping Company, £2 10s. Mr fluddart s secured the co-opera-tion of the Grand Trunk and Pacific Railway companies in support of bis Atlantic serviceLondon financiers are convinced that the scheme will be successfully floated. Five of the best shipyards have offered to build vessels. The Times regards Mr Huddart's request for an Imperial subsidy for his Atlantic service as a reasonable one, owing to its advantages for military purposes, and adds that the prospect of the construction of the Pacific cable should justify the British Governmen in agreeing to a guarantee for the cable. Great Britain, it says, must remove the obstacles to trade between the colonies. Rome. March 27. With a view to reduce its outlay the Government has suspended the construction of the new forts on the Austrian and Swiss frontiers. A priest at Allaire, in France, has reported to the Vatican that slaves are extensively marketed in some villages of Abang, in Africa, and killed, thoir joints boing selected for food beforehand, Vienna, March 27. Tho Austrian Socialists aro discussing a proposal for a gonoral strike, with the view of securing eight hours and universal suffrngo. Tbe Emperor will meet the Emperor of Germany at Abbai-iia on Thursday to rearrange the Triple Alliance, which expires in 1897.