THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2

THE LATEST.

STEAMER CAPSIZED. • FIFTY PERSONS DROWNED. RIOTS AT BORDEAUX. ;

• REBELLION IN TEMAN.

Received, June 25, 10.20 a.m. ' London, June 24 Mr Raikes, replying to a deputation of owners and publishers of newspapers and -periodicals, agreed to fix the maximum ■ weight' of newspapers at one pound and otherwise facilitate their transmission. ■ ' Mr H. Campbell, M.P. for Fermanagh, obtained i>2so damage against the Cork Herald for alleging that he rented houses for Parnell's immoral purposes. Seyeral of the largest shareholders in the National Bank of New Zealand are opposing the Director's , proposals, and it is considered probable that they will be rejected at the coming meeting.' Yokohama, June 23. The steamer Jap capsized off the coast of Japan and fifty persons were drowned. She was engaged in the coastal trade. Capetown, June 23. Four hundred and fifty* men of the • Yorkshire regiment _are encamped .on ' Mqfeking for the purpose of watching the ' movements of the Boers. Ottawa, June 24. The Canadian Government propose to .abolish the duty on sugar, and increase the import, on malt, spirits, beer, and tobacco. The effect of the proposals in their entirety will be to remit two million dollars of taxation. Owing to British interference the Canadian fishermen are again entitled to obtain bait for Newfoundland fisheries. Pabis, June 24. . - Rioting at Bordeaux ha 9 been renewed. The men stoning the police and hussars. One hundred arrests were effected. Constantinople, June 23. The rebellion in Yeman (Southern Arabia), notwithstanding the recent defeat of the insurgents, is spreading. - The Sultan # has only been able to send two thousand *troops>to the scene of the revolt.