SPECIAL CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 236, 10 February 1894, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLES.

(PJSB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 8, In the House of Lords, in committee on the Parish Councils Bill, the Marquis of Salisbury proposed an amendment with a view of disfranchising labourers who compounded tor their rates. The Duke of Devonshire withdrew bis support, whereupon Lord Salisbury abandoned the amendment. The Courts of Malta have disagreed as to the validity of Protestant marriages, 3000 of wbich have been celebrated since the beginning of the century, and the point has been referred to the Privy Council for its decision. Mr R. Reid, the Victorian Minister for Defence, w.ho is on his way to tbe Canadian Tariff Conference, has asked the War Office to establish meat depots for tbe Indian army at Colombo, Calcutta, and Bombay. The officials are considering the suggestion. Canon Strott declares that the position of the Anglican Church is a byword owing to the selfish disregard of the interests of the people. Vienna, February 8. Great distress is prevalent among tbe working classes in Austria, and it is estimated that there are 350,000 men out of employment. Berlin, February 7. Under the new Commercial Treaty, Russia reduces the duty on German minerals and textiles 50 per cent. The commercial concessions made by Russia to Germany will also apply to England, under the terms of the favoured nation clause. Rome, February 7Merlino, the Anarchist leader who was recently arrested, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Washington, February 8. The Democrats, as well as the Finance Committee of the Senate, are opposed to hearing merchants in con-, nection with the reduction of wooi duties. Senator Cameron has given notice to move that the coming into operation of the new tariff be deferred until January, 1896. Ottawa, February 8 The system of paying bonuses to immigrants has been abolished.