TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 132, 4 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright N.Z.L. AND M. COMPANY. DISTRESS IN ENGLAND. THE JESUISTS AND GERMANY. THE CAMPAIGN IN MATABELELAND. ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN SIA&f. . (PBB PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] London, December 2. The Duke of Leinster. aged 42 years, and the Earl of Warwick, aged 75 years, aro dead. A few days ago a young aristocrat named Leigh, who married and left with a Gaiety actress who visited Australia recently, instituted proceedings for fraud against an English solicitor, Mr John btodgeons, alleging that he had misapplied the sura of L 48.000 lodged with him for the purposes of investment. Stod geons, has been suspended for two years. Clergymen of the Church of England and others who have been conferring regarding the best means of coping with the prevalent distress have approved the principle that sufficient wages should be paid to enable people to live, and have suggested the appointment of Boards of conciliation. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's debenture stock has risen to 3}, and is quoted at 86. A Franco-English commission proceeds to Siam to examine and delimit neutral zone. Alderman Dillon, a Parnellite, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, Capetown, December 2. Heavy rains in Matabeleland are im« peding (be operations against Lobengnla. Bkhlin, December 2. The Reiclirtag, by a majority of 40, lias decided in favor of the Centre Party's Bill repealing ilio exceptional laws for the Jesuists. Washington, December 2. It is proposed to increase the legacy i duties and tbe taxes on spirits and malt, and to impose a duty on sugar, to meet the loss of revenue expected from tbe alterations in the tariff. Bio dk Janeibo, December 2. The reported assassination of President Peixoto is denied. Some, Dec, 2. The moritorium asked for by the Credito Mob linre has I e.<n granted. Vienna. December 1. Tlie Austrian Government is alarmed at the Bussinn negotiations for a naval depdt on the Montenegro coast,