TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 138, 11 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright IMPERIAL "PARLIAMENT. COLONIAL BUTTER IN LONDON. ANOTHER NIHILIST PLOT, (PRB PBKS9 ASSOCIATION^ London, December 9. Lord Cromer has been offered the post of Ambassador at St. Petersburg, rend ered vacant by the death of Sir Robert Morier. In the Education Act, the age of com. pulsory attendance at elementary schools lias been raised from 10 to 11 years. The House of Lords by a large majority has agreed to the introduction into the Employers' Liability Bill of a clause pro viding for workmen contracting themselves out of the provisions of the Bill. The Radicals have compelled Mr Glad« stone to alter the Parish Councils Bill in the direction of disestablishment. The difficulties of the measure increase as it progresses. The Times asserts that the affairs of the New Oriental Bank are managed in the worst possible way. The Ruabine left Plymouth today for Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago She has 168 passengers for New Zealand ports. The Tongariro arrived at Plymouth yesterday, and her cargo of frozen meat is reported to be in good order. Many of the Scotch miners are resuming work on the masters' terras. The Butter Committee ask the Victorian Government to urge the P. and 0. Company to be more prompt in the delivery of consignments of butter, as delay causes losa to shippers. The Company deny that there is any delay. During the strike 15,000 tons of foreign coal were imported, principally from Belgium. Five hundred tons came from New South Wales. In future the English Scottish and Australian Bank will undertake short dated deposits, and it is intended to close some of the branches in the colonies Lady Somerset and others are urging the Government to transfer 100 habitual inebriates from the prisons, for the purpose of maintaining farm homes. The Premier, replying to a deputation gave a pledge that next session a measure will be brought in granting full local option. Pabis, December 9. A Parisian woman, a patient in the late Dr Charcot's Institute, fired three times with a revolver and wounded a doctor. The woman having been brought before tbe Court, the plea has been raised of hypnotic suggestion. The trial of the brothers Korigue for piracy and murder has concluded. Each of ihc prisoners has been sentenced to death. Tbe Government is founding a system of river torpedoes similar to those of Russia. ' Buenos Aybes, December 9. Congress .has sanctioned the extradi* tion treaty with Great Britain, which affects Jabez Spencer Bo! four. Bkrnr, December 9. The National Council of Switzerland has granted Li.000,000 for the permanent occupation of the forts commanding St. Gothard. St Petersburg, December 10. Upwards of fifty persons have been arrested in connection with Nihilist plot at Warsaw. Many of those arrested were flogged with the knout. The leader of the conspiracy confessed,