CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 126, 17 April 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.-rCopyright |PER UNITJSD PBESS ASSOCIATION. | LoNDeNi April 14. Mr David- Hean, who was sent from London to investigate the affairs of the - Bank of New Zealand, replying to inquires made by the London office early in April, stales that the properties of the institution are being re- valued, and so far the prospects are encouraging. Replying to a question in the House- of Commons, Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, stated that the Judge who tried the D avisos approved the hangiug of the elder brother aB the instigator of the murder . , Sir James Fergusson stated in the House of Commons to*day that news of the Portuguese expedition to Mpondo, Shire*, has not been oonfirmed. Germany has assured England t that the. operations of Emm Pasha will be -confined entirely within the German sphere. ."-"". In the House of Commons Mr Parnell will move that the Irish Land Purchase Bill be read this day six months. Aprills. A strike of hands employed- at the manufactories of R. Hornsby and Sons, the well-known implement makers, has been compromised. ,/■."; The Australian cruisers have been renamed, the Pandora being changed to Katoeba, Pelorusto Mildera, Persian to Wallaroo, Phoenix to Tauranga, Psyche to. Ringarooma, Whitinjr to Boomerang, and Wizard to Narrakatta. The Opposition support Mr Par-ell's amendment that the Irish Land. Purchase' Bill be read six months hence. The Grand Duke Constantine, cousin of the ' Czar, has arrived here. He is writing a revolutionary pobm. Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt has contracted for a grand impresSario lour of the world, visiting America and Aus tralia. ; : * •'■ . Bbblin,. April 14. It is rumoured that the Congo. Free State is about to be dissolved, and the' territory offered to Germany. It is believed that the King of the Belgians desires to, sell. his personal interest to the Emperor. The Kaiser has ordered the police not to meddle with the labour celebrations in May. Viksna, April 14. It is expected that a 'procession of 200,000 workmen will march throuyu the : streets on the oocasion of the labour demonstration. Cabul, April 14. The Ameer has given permission to caravans to visit Afghan towns, including Herat. » Calcutta April 14. Influenza has spread all over India. The bulk of the troops are prostrated with it. Zanzibar, April 15; It is now understood that Emm Pasha's first caravan rto the interior of Africa is but tbe forerunner of four or five others. ...;.. Germans are buying immense warehouses here.