LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 118, 29 March 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

ATTEMPTED FBATJD ON AN DfSTJBANCE COvIPANY. TWO MEN ABBS3STED. LOCAL OPTION FOS. IRELAND. THE AOBFA COLLIEBY DISASTEB. CONSPIBACY AGAINST THE CZAB. 15y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright* (PEB UNITED PBBBS ASSOCIAIIOir.)- ~ London.. March 27. The annal report of the Bank of Australasia was adopted. At the meeting the Chairman stated that the condition of affairs in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand was improving, but South Australia and Queensland were still in » very depresed state. A. resolution in the direction of local option for Ireland was rejected by the - House of Commons. Th 6 verdict in the Aorfa colliery disaster was that there was no evidence to' show who was to blame and the cause of the ignition was unknown, Washington, March 28. Mr Bame, Secretary of State, propose* to lhyite a' Pan-American Congress te» consider the propriety of arranging an absolute commercial reciprocity all oyer the American . Continent. The Congressof the United States is likely to agree tolas proposal. St. Johns, March 27. . .Newfoundland threatens to appeal to the United States,, if England does not to take measures to .protect the local -'•' fisheries against French claime. St. Petbbsbubo, March 28. Many students have been arrested afc Moscow, Oharkoff, and Kazan, on the. t ground oi dißorderlv conduct. A large* , number of officers have also- ' been arrested at St; Petersburg on a charge of : conspiracy against the life of the Czar. Paris, Marete27v v ' The Pane Government, fearing -tbe» contagion,, have determined to- exclude^ live sheep. The German leather drefr-ers 1 '■ and butchers in Paris are much lncensect ' at this action oa the part' of the* autbori* ties. . J~ Sydney, March 28*- . Two men named Wood a»s CeogfcEo have been arrested on . a chaggp of eon spiracy to- defraud the Australian; Widows' Insurance Company.- Coughha reported that Wood had been (feowned atOoogee (a suicide plaoe near Sydaey) some time ago r and the pebce found his ■. clothes but no- body* Wood's- wife tried , to get the amount of the insurance policy r but it was discovered that her hasband was still alive.