LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 114, 2 April 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegr<t||^Copyright, (m PKEB9 ASSOOfItTIOK.) Recei red April %. noon. liOnbow, April 1. The Education Bepttttmeni propose to abandon the present Byßtem of payment by per cenfage of passes, and substitute giving general grants to be dependent on the report o£ Inspector*. Revenue returns for the year show re~ ceipts— £d%<£l&fiOO r Pabiß, April 1. , The ereetienr ©f the Biffs Tower is completed 1 , Paris will be illuminated on. the occasion 1 of the opening: of the Exhibition, and there will be a great display of , fireworks.. A. boat carnival on the Seine* will Be a feature of the celebrationsyWnd agreat torchlight procession in which' over 15,000 soldiers will take part. . Tobin. ApnTl. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot r who has been living in this city forth*. , last cparter of a century, is dying. : . i Mkiboubnk, Ths* ©ay. While a doctor named Taafe was, fAtar* ing h» buggy at Bochestei 1 , a man nftme4. Gaffney, who was standing on the balcony of the hotel, fired at and .wounded him severely. Gafiney then turned his •weapon on himself with fatal effect. : The -doctor is in a critic t>l condition. Q- ffaey, a was his dispenser, and Taafe supe^tingthe •. was something wrong with ius accounts had suspended him. - •. ■■•'- :■••-.. :•„-** '. A fire occurred in the newlyvalected Federal Coftee Palace, which did immense, damage. ..... ■-'.-•' ■ , -i Londow, March. 3o In the House of Commons; -Mr Justin McCarthy, MR for l&ndou- ; derry, in the absence of Mr Parnell, delivered a warm eulograai on John Bright. He said it wa» impossible to forget his splendid services, he» claimed the right of Ireland" sto deposit a mourning wreath on tlie^bmb of the deceased statesman; : a A memorial service was held- at Westminister Abbey,-, at whichitord Harrington, and Mr Ghitders' were present, and the Prince of Wales wa* represented by his- -equerry, :? Tb© . services were conducted by Ih^Granville Bradley, Dean or Westminister,, who regretted that deceased' was not buried in the Abbey, f ' ■■••* ■ . Mr Gladstone opposed the ratification of the Sugar Bounties Convention, It is doubtful if the Unionists will [support the: Bill ratifying the Convention. ; .. v: ; - The names of the Vessels which collided in the Channel on Saturday were, the Princes* Benrfotfe ;and the Comte&se Flandre. The HBolfision took place in mid- channel.- * r -*** 1 aa S ';;- The Oxford crew complain thatiheCambridge crew forced theft itftoRhalloV water, and : if - jhad not given way a foul must baye^ occurred on which Oxford would have 1 awarded the race. • ; ! ' ~" : . : *iJ:. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Fenwick's motion; :^iaiit Was expedient that members Bhould^receiv» ;an honorarium was iejected. '^"^ '"? ']. 1 ■;■•■ ■ ■•; •^j^'M«^Bb : aC^ If General Boulanger . is arrested for alleged complicity ii* the a^ta, o f the Patnotio League, he will be tried by the Senate. . : ; v<. General Boulanger, in the conriie of an interview, said he did not believ» he would be prosecuted^ a* he htiS never exceeded the law. ; ? ,%

St. Petbbsbfß(J, Marca 30.

It appears that the plot w Web; wa» frustrated by the discovery pf an^afcv tempt to wreck the train* eoot*y»£ the Czar and. Czarina? to Gatoebina). extended throughout Bussi% andi that a series of attempts against the lifeof the Czar and offieMdi had been arranged. • ' ...-V "'. ' ■>:;■-.;-■- 1

Numerous arrests . have been mad* at Nt, Petersburg, Moscow, Kien% Kharoff, and Odessa, chiefly of Jews.* The plot was discovered through explosion which occurred at Zurichy and which killed the Jewis .student who organised an attempt on the lif» of the Czar in March, 1887-

Stbnbt, April 1.

His Excellency; the Governor has> forwarded a message' of "syropachj to the German and American Consols i ? ib connection with the! loss of Iff e at Samoa.

It is understood that the Government bare decided: to renew the San Francisco mail contract for a term of one year, on the ground that the proposals for the carriage of mails via Canada require g £ vveconsiclera ion. The wet weather has. interfered with the wheat auction sales. Two thousand baps, ex barque , Notero, from Lyttelton. were offered, but passed in, except a small tine of chick feed at 3& 7d. ' '' '" ..' „■.'...' ' /'.'.