HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 231, 5 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MANIFESTO FTOM THE PARNELLITES. A NEW ZEALAND APPEAL CASE PROPOSED NEW ATLANTIC SEEvrcE. j THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF. COLONIAL BUTTER. VERDICTS OF TEMPORARY INSANITY. THE CZARS ILLNESS. THE FRENCH AND THE DAHOMEY KING. A ROYAL BETROTHAL. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) St. Petebsbcbo, February 3, The Franco- Russian policy with respect to Servia is greatly disturbed over exKmg Milan's overtures regarding the Triple Alliauce The Czar has recovered from his indisposition. Paris. February 2; News has beeii received that the French troops operating iv Dahomey have arrested King Behanzin, and he is being sent to Senegal. Ministers have decided to confine him in Gaboon, Western Africa. BocHAHEST. February 3. The betrothal is announced of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, to Princess Josephine of Belgium. Wash^gton, February 3. Democrats voted against the Tariff Bill despite their pledges. Members of the Seuate threaten to alter the tariff. After the vote was taken on the new tariff Mr Wilson, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was carried shoulder high from the Chamber. Such a scene had never been witnessed in the House before. Londox, February 3. A Parnellito manifesto has been issued appealing for funds for general election purposes. The Manifesto asserts that Mr Gladstone's Irish administration is inlis Unamenable from that of the Conservatives, and declares that a failure ot the Government to secure Home Rule m 1894 will supremely test the Party's faith. The Appeal of Union Steam Ship Company y. dandle, nming out of an accident at Lyttelton, has been dismissed, with costs. Huddart has sailed for Canada to inter* view the Premier of the Dominion and the ex Premier of Queensland relative to an Atlantic service St James Gazette states that a split has taken place in the Cabinet over the Uganda policy, the Premier objecting to Lord Rosebery's views for a British protectorate. The Peninsular and Oriental Company has decided not to reduce the freight on butter. The Union Bank of Australia lias issued the City of Sydney loan of 1300,---000 at 4 per cent at par. Tenders close on the Bth instant. The Daily Chronicle declares that the House of Lords is wrecking the Parish Councils Bill by its detailed amendments. A number of clergymen have petitioned Convocation, through the Archbishop of Canterbury, to consider the tendency of juries to return verdicts of temporary insanity in cases of suicide. They consider the return of such verdicts tends to increase the number of suicides, by weakening the criminal stigma.