LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 129, 20 April 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, April 19. Tho opinion is increasing in the city that it is advisable the Victorian Government should take power to extend five per cents, for some years, and also intimate early that they have no intention of borrowing in London for several years. The World asserts that litigation in connection with the ownership of the English Estates of the twelfth Earl of Caithness has resulted in half being allotted to Mr Murray McGregor, a resident in Clive, Napier, New Zealand. [A telegram from Napier says:— The man referred to in the above cablegram was educated at the Napier High School, and early developed kleptomania tendencies. He has been twice convicted of larceny. And at the February sittings of the Supreme Court was sentenced to four months for larceny as a baileoof a horse.] Mr Valentine the butter expert, advises the New South Wales Government to exhibit a working model of the meat and butter refrigerator at the Imperial Institute. Sir Saul Samuel is" favorable to the proposal if the importers will bear the expense. Tbo Daily Chronicle asserts a vigorous crusade threatens the Government and it may lead to a secession of the Liberals from the party unless the Budget deals with the death dues. A deputation, representing the Durham miners, waited on Mr Gladstone and entered a protest against the laws restricting the hours of labour for miners. Mr Gladstone expressed his sympathy with the objections of the deputation. The London Chartered Bank shares are recovering, and now quoted at i? 9 10s. In the spot-bdrrod billiard match between Dawson and Roberts, in which the lattQr conceded a start of 9000 points in a game of 24,000. Dawson won by 2000 points. Lord Aberdeen succeeds Lord Stanley as Governor-General of Canada in Septorabor. The Treasury has consented to pay an additional fifteen centimes per lb on the New Zealand mails via San Francisco. This is equivalent to I'oOO sterling per annumParis, April 19. Commercial relations between France and Hayti have been brokun off. The Parisian Law Society has suspended M. M. Albert Grey and Renault from practising their profession for threo months, owing to their connections with the Panama Canal Scandals. Influenza is increasing in the cit^*. New I'or.K, April 18. Tho World says that steamers subsidised by Canada are wresting from America a large portion of the trade with Japan, and China, and now threaten to cut into the Australian traffic.