HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 306, 17 May 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

CAB STEIKE IN LONDON. THE PANAMA CANAL. THE PROPOSALS REGARDING THE DEATH DUTIES. STODDART'S CRICKET TEAM. [PEB PRESS AS-OCIATIO' .J London, May 16. The cab strike has begun and the men are stationing strong pickets to overawe the new hands M. Labilliere, in a letter to tbe Times, comments on the Ghancellor's proposals regarding the death duties, and says they will affect colonial property of persons living and dying in England, and will tend to retard the flow of capital for investment in Australia. Stoddart's cricket team sails for Australia in September. One thousand students from Oxford University marched in procession in an excited manner to the railway station as a protest against the rustication of a section of the students of Christ Church College, owing to recent disorder in the College on account of strict discipline. Experts condemn the crowded model dwellings in East London, where the mortality is 41 per thousand. They assert that the carbonic acid in 1864 in the London air was 380 deg. per thousand in volume, while at present it is 568deg. Berlin, May 16 The Miners' Congress has opened here. One million operatives are represented. j Washington, May 16 The miners who were entombed through the Great Aurora mine in Michigan catching fire have been rescued. Rome. May 16 The Italian Chamber of Deputies refuses to reduce the army vote. Hong Kong, May 16. The Chinese Government is devoting the sum of three millions sterling to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the Empress Dowager. Catbo. Ma? 16. Several Egyptain notables intend to take criminal proceedings against Ferdinand De Lesseps and other early directors of the Suez Canal for embezzling shares of the founders of the work granted by Said Pasha in 1857.