HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 214, 15 January 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

"»- ■ - - - HOME POLITICS. THE FIGHT BETWEEN CORBETT AND MITCHELL. MORE FIGHTING IN AFRICA. • THE COPTIC UNDER FIRE. | Per Press Association.] London. Jannary 14. The House of Lords will assemble on Monday next to prepare business for the House of Commons when it resumes. The Parish Councils Bill has passed its third reading iv the House of Commons. The House has now adjourned. Five toua of Queensland beef have been sold in Vienna, and Mr Weddell is also sending a local shipment to Germany by Lloyd's Hamburg line. The British frontier police defeated 4000 Sofas, killing 200. Several members of the House of Com. mons have presented a petition to Sir W. V. Harcourt, asking (hat the Government will increase the death duties and tho graduated income tax, and abolish the duties on tea, coffee, cocoa and dried i'rurs. In response to a |deputation in connection with the cable across the Pacific, Lord Ripou assured the deputation of the sympathy and goodwill of the Government with respect to the project, but explained that the preseut was not a tit time to discuss details.and they had better await the result of the conference shortly to be held in Canada between the representatives of the Dominion and the Australian calonies. New Yobk. January 14. Some difficulty is likely to be experienced over the fight between Mitchell and Corbett for £4000, which had been arranged to take place on the stage of the Duval Athletic Club, Jacksonville, on 25th January. The Sheriff, in obedience to instructions, has threatened to proclaim irlartial law in order to prevent the contest being carried out, but the local Militia have intimated that they will refuse to adopt the Governor's orders. Washington, .Jannary 14. The Coinage Committee of the House have reported in favour of the Bland Bill, providing for the issue of silver certificates on the seignorage of bullion in Treasury amounting to 55,000,000 dollars, and rapid coinage of bullion certificates lined to pay current debts. It is probable that the income tax proposals will be abandoned in order to save the remainder of the Tariff Bill. Zanzibar, January 15. Heavy fightiug has taken place in Nyassaland between the British and natives, and Commissioner Johnston has inflicted a severe defeat on the slave chief, Makanjiru.