LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 127, 19 April 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

: * " / By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (FEB UNITKI> 9BE.S ASSOCIATION). Zanzib-ab, April 17. Emm,. with 1500 followers, opens trad-' rag stations ou the great central African lakes in the German interest. St. Pktbb»bubg[> April 17. Tbe Czar's small Palace- at Finland ha* been destroyed by fire, and seyen person* were killed by falling dshvi*. London, April 18. Mr Goeehe&.iß willing to reduce the* postal rates to India aiid the colonies, by all routes, to 2Jd, if the colonies concur. By this reduction, he estimates a lose of Jb'WMXN). . The Budget estimated expenditure for the year is £86.857,000, leaving an available surplus of £3,549,00©; The Com' age Fund has been ; restored, ■ and the* ttold Fund created and credited with £600,000 arising from Mint profits, in the* circulation, of silver. The d»ty on silver plate is remitted to tho extent of £80-,j(KM> and that on tea is reduced to 4d per pound, and on currant* to 2s per cwt, aa Greece is making important' concession* in this latter article. The* house duty i» reduoed by L 540-000, and there- ar» several other minor rednctiom. Thfr duty on British and foreign spirits' has been increased 6d per gallon, wnich with the additional beer duty imposed lab* year, will be handed to Uie local authorities. * Constance Kent, sentenced to death int 1865— the sentence being subsequently commuted to imprisonment for life— on a charge of murdering her brother, four yeara of age on a road near Frome, Somerset, has been released. At |the time of the murder Constance Kent was 1$ years of age. One syndicate has applied for three* . and a half millions of the Victorian. loan. [ Sir F. N. Broome informed the colonis- ; ing committee of the Hou»e of Commons : it would be useless to attempt any scheme* ■of sending emigrants to Western Australia under LI,OO.MMX). Last, night the. police raided the* : " Fidelia," a low betting club inSoho r ' and effected the arrest of 57 persons, chiefly foreigners. Captain Kane,, late of the Caliope, is aa applicant for the post of Commander of H.M.S. Excellent. The men assert that the master bootmakers are shuffling, and insist that the; question of enlarging andr* improving the workshops should be promptly settled. Arrangements are being made to enforce order during the: .way demonstrations. ;"'. -■:•■- The evictions dn the Ponsonby estate; are preceding quietly. Sir C. Dilke has declined to contest th* . Kensington seat. It is thought probable that Stanley wili benaturalised and decorated. Paris, April 17. Madame Melba appeared here a* . " Marguerite" m Faust, and scored the greatest success that has fallen to the lot of any singer who has filled the part sine* Adehua Patti. A meeting of anarchists at the house, of Louse Michel insisted that dynamite was essential to the .attainment of their objects. This sentiment was receiyed with applause. • Bbbun, April 17. The Socialists deolare that the labour demonstration on Ist May. will be carried out everywhere without any disorder. Washington. April 17. The Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives has reported on the Republican's Tariff Bill making hideß and sugar below 16 per cent Dutch standard free, above 16 per cent subject to a duty df four-tenths of one cent per pound, and giving American domestic sugar, a bounty of two cent* per pound.