LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 134, 6 May 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright | PEK UNITE» PBEBB ASSOCIATION. I London. May 4. The loss incurred by the theft of the DuGbess of Edinburgh's jewel* turns out to be trifling. The JUf.S. Bimutaka sailed from Plymouth on Saturday. The- corn average- of the English, market is 30s 9d. • ■ . . , * WASHiiroTpir, May 4. The- Senate- has requested the President-,. ... to negotiate with England for the purpose of preventing an influx of Chinese inter the United States through Canada, a Pabis, May 4, The- bombardment of Wbydah caused a panic among- the Dahomeyans. . The shei- ... ling of the town will be resumed on Mon-- J ' day unless the prisoners are released in Vj the meantime. The Jews will hold a meeting in Pari* to concert measures for opposing the Anti-Semitic agitation. V V ■ May 5, The Dahomeyane- are- reported Jjto bemobilising their troops. - V . Two Boulangerists have been elected - for a Paris municipality. St-Petbbsbub^. May 4. A stringent system- of passports and: taxation is to be imposed on foreigners „_• entering Rassia. '„,-•.<■ Austria asserts that these: restriction* are a violation of the existing treaties. ' Bkslik^ May 4-, General von Caprivi strongly supports* the expansion of the.Germaui colonies. Lisbon, May 4 . Portugal is prepared to accept arbitration oyer the Tambesi dispute. Sofia, May 5. x. Major Panitza is being pubhcry tried for the late conspiracy to dethrone Prince, x Ferdinand. Zajtzibab, M»y. 5 V ..- The British East African Company decline to recognise slavwry. ; SviwrEY, ThM.Day. ... As the flood water recedes Bourke isfound to be in a deplorable condition. The fund for the relief of the sufferers has- • now reached .£SOOO. Adblaids. May 5. A constable has reported to the Government on the treatment of blacks on -tha Mission Station in the Northers Territory, accusing the German missionaries* of ill treating them. He states he saw the missionaries threaten the blacks with, firearms and ride down runaway children with reyo-veinK Women were ill-used, and cripples of both sexes were allowed to wander where they . pleased,. ,He as- , serts that the natives who manage to escape from the missions become tk» worst of outlaws.