TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 127, 28 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

NEW AMERICAN TARIFF. AN ENGLISH SOLICITOR IN TROUBLE. THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION. INFLUENZA SPREADING. ANOTHER DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. MORE RIOTS. THE ITALIAN SCANDAL By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (FRE PRESS ASSOCIATION;. Washington, November 27. The new American tariff will reduce the duty on refined sugar from one half to a quarter cent per lb. The raw article remains free. Leigh, a young aristocrat who married and left with a Gaiety actress and visited Australia recently, has instituted proceedings for fraud against an English solicitor. The name of the accused has not been disclosed, but it is alleged that he has misappropriated the snni of £48,000 lodged with him for the purpose of investment. Frequent collisions have taken place between the railway strikers and the free men at Leigh, Pennsylvania, and the militia have been summoned to preserve order. The new tariff will reduce the McKinley sugar bounty one eighth per cent per annum. Mr McKinley contends that a redaction of wages will certainly follow the passing of the Free trade tariff by Congress, and that a prospect of that tariff coming into ' force constitutes a fearful menace to industries!. London, November 27Large numbers of people are prostrated by influenza, which la spreading throughout Englaud. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to destroy Aldboro barracks in Dublin. A dynamite bomb, which was thrown at the building, failed to explode. The Observer congratulates the colonies on the speedy restoration of confidence. The Marquis of Breßdalbane has been decorated with the Order of the Garter. Mr Tom Mann lias definitely dscided to enter the Church. Mr Dillon states that the annual cosl of maintaining the evicted tenants in Ireland is L 24.000. Nkw Yobk. November 27. The net profits ot the Chicago exhibition amounted to' 1,800,000 dollars. Goods to the value of two million pounds were sold by the exhibitors. Bebmn, November 27. The influenza epidemic is again raging and many deaths have resulted. Fabis, November 27. M. Meline has-also declined to form a Ministry. The fall of the Cabinet was due to an absence of policy on the part of M. Dupuy, who attempted to follow the lines dictated by iho President. Bofore the vote of wont of confidence was carried three Ministers secretly resigned, and on this becoming known the Cham* ber refused to proceed with business, Some, November 27. The Italian Bank Committee's report inculpates twenty-five deputies, including Signor Cnspi, who owed the Banca Bomana i>> azionale 244,000 francs.