CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 131, 28 April 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— : : — *- : By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (I'KH UNITKI) PHK>3 ASSOCIATION.) London, April 25. The surplus in the Budget is chiefly derived from the increased duties on alcohol, tobacco, and tea. The evideuce adduced at the trial of Captain Veruey as to his identity with the Mr Wilson, banker, tor whom the woman Roullier produced Miss Blasket'i. ia overwhelming. At a meeting of publicans the Budgetwas denounced, as no provision is made for remissions of the extra duties on alcohol, as promised* Several Conservative papers condemn the proposed system of free education as a system which would be injurious to the voluutary schools. Canterbury mutton, 4 Jd ;. Wellington, ditto, 3jd. Hemp.— Wellington, fair quality, £21 ; no demand. The finest quality of New Zealand cheese is realising from 56s to 58s. There are many complaints made at the condition in whcih . apples, ■ butter, mid cheese by the steamer Arawa, from New Zealand arrived. Valparaiso, April 25 A battle has taken place at Iquique between the insurgents and the Presi - dent's troops, resulting iv the defeat of the latter. The sinking of the rebel warship Blanco Enciilade, off Autofagasta, has now been confirmed. The yessel sank shortly after being: struck by a torpedo, and a large number of the crew lost their lives. Lisbon, April 25. The Portuguese Government is sending a large quantity of gunpowder to the authorities in Mashonaland. .New Yohk. April 24 The vill of the late Phmeaf T. Barmi in has been sworn at under one million sterling. April 25. A murder has taken place here, and the mutilations of the body are somewhat similar to the Whitechapel murders attributed to " Jack the Ripper." Romk, April 2.5. By the explosion of gunpowder at a magazine on Thursday, St Peter's Church I received considerable damage; and is now . closed. Hia Holitiess the Pope was celebrating Muss at the time, and the concussion , caused him to fall backwards, receiving a severe shaking.