CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 126, 16 April 1891, Page 2

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-• — By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PHKSS As'aOCl ATION .) London, April li. Mr Goschen will deliver bis budget speech on April 23. Wool is firm, but unchanged. The Star states that warrants have been issued against Captain E. H. Werney, M.P. for Bucks, and one of the Ulster members, for separate grave criminal offences. The Ulsterman is alleged to have absconded. The London strike cost the Federation £15,000, including £12,000 for wages paid to free labourers. Another trial has been made with the Australian torpedo gunboat, Karakatta, and this time wa3 attended with success. The other torpedo boat, Boomerang, is completed and ready for sea. Three hundred and fifty-two tenders were received for the Victorian loan. The largest was sent in by a life insurance company for £145,000, at a shilling premium. The London and Westminster Bank took £300,000 at the minimum. The failure of the loan is attributed to the abstention of the associated banks and syndicates through fear of an increase in the bank rate, and an additional withdrawal of gold. The general opinion in the city is that the rebuff will prove a valuable lesson, and show Victoria that she must put a check on borrowing. Many people express surprise that sc much was subscribed. Belgrade, April 13. During a debate in the Skupstchina or the Government proposal to vote a pen sion of 80,000 francs to ex-King Milan provided he leaves Servia until his sor attains his majority, the minority insistec that Queen Natalie should also take hei departure. Paris, April 13. Madame Melba's house has beer burned. The prima donna escaped by i ladder in her nightdress, carrying hei jewels with her. She caught a seven cold from exposure to the night air. New York. April 14 It is expected that lynching will be fre quently resorted to as a form of punish ment in parts of the States. Capetown, April 14. It is expected that Portugal will ratifj the convention giving Umbassa Kraal t< the Rhodes Co., Portugal retaining a por tion of the Matai river basin.