CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 120, 3 April 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.-- Copyright jPKft. USITIiD PEKSS ASSOCIATION. | !i ;]: London, March 31. The.- Metropolitan G&s Company has •refused to employ unionists owing to the threats of the leaders to strike ' without notice. The London Dock Union has voted £1000 in aid of the Liverpool strikers. ■Sir;;* Graha- Berry denies the state, ment that the Victorian loan of two millions will be placed on the market shortly. The returns for the year show the revenue to have been £89,304.000. This is exclusive of £5,185,000 transferred from local taxation. . . ... , . : ; ; The question of emigration to Australia remains unsettled pending the consent of the Colonial Governments to the proposed sqheme, , ' , = , Only two and- a half millions out of four and a-half ; million Tictorian so.vereigus haye been received, and it is believed that many are in India. April 1. A public trial will shortly be held of Major Fitzgerald's new gun. At: the suggestion pf Professor Albue, Australian students in London are taking 6teps to promote clpser union. Sak EBAiicißCoi f April;!. ■ Messrs Chaffey Bros, have engaged Californian " experts in fruit growing to proceed to their irrigation colonies at Mil-, dura, and elsewhere on the, Murray river. * , ■'...■• SoiiA, MacK 31. Bulgaria is arming for ata expected fray with Servia. Tho official Dreas is defiant, and boasts that they will thrash their enemy again, , „ , ! '•■•■' Washikotost, March 31. It is estimated that the loss of life by the recent cyclone will amount to about 200. ; : ■; ■: .., The revised ; Republican Tariff Bill 'effects a reduction in the reyenue of 45, million dollars, and imposes a Id per cent ad' valorem duty on hides. BbitsseXiS, March 31. The work of excavating the ship canal from here to Antwerp has begun. Nbw'Yobk, March 31. The Besha country, in the State of Arkansas, is inundated to a depth of fifteen feet, and three thousand of the re- ■ sidents who sought refuge on the housetops are in a famishing condition. St. Petebsbubg, March 31. Schebrikpraj who was arrested for -writing a' lette'r^to-the Czar demahuu;^ reforms in Russia, has been released by order of his Majesty. In doing so, the latter remarked the'tohe of the letter was very .bitter.,- ■„-•, ; .. ' r . ; - ''" The Czar and Czarina inspected the .nulitafy prison at St Petersburg and gayer ordevs: for the of j sixty prisoners, and also that the sentences of the remainder should be reduced. March i. The man who was chosen by the Nihilists to assassinate the Czar has committed suicide in this city. He left a letter divulging his associates, and in consequence the authorities have made numerous arrests. Generally there is an alarming increase of revolutionary symptoms. Pabiß, April 1. Private letters received here indicate that five thousand [Kanakas are suffering : from leprosy in New Caledonia. The press is complaining of the delay which has taken place in isolating those suffering from the malady. '.'■ ; . Madrid, April 1. The trade unionists at Catalonia haye gone out on strike, demanding a reduoion in the number of hours worked. Yienka, April 1. Fifteen thousand masons engaged in the city have g6ne out on strike, demanding nine hours* labour. Their action has resulted in throwing 30,000 artisans out of work." ; Warsaw, April 1. The result of the inquiries into the recent baby farming scandal is that the murderess of .75 infants has been sentenced to three years imprisonment.