HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 317, 18 May 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH DUTIES. THE CABMEN'S STBIKE. AN AMERICAN POLITICAL SCANDAL. THE ABMY VOTE IN ITALY SUGAR BEET CULTURE IN VICTORIA. GREAT ANARCHIST PLOT. DISASTROUS FLOODS in AMERICA SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. [PEB FRESi ASSOCIATION, j Paris, May 16C. L. Ambroise Thos. French, musical composer, has been created Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Brussels, May 16 The Belgian Consul in Melbourne reEorts favorably on the prospects of sugar eet culture in Victoria. The police in Liege are endeavouring to unravel an international Anarchist plot. London, May 17. The Council of the Colonial Institute has addressed a protest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer against the imposition of death duties on properties in the colonies of which the owners are domiciled in England. A number of masters have accepted the cabmen's terms. Two hundred of the men on strike overturned a hansom in Park Lane, breaking the driver's leg. It is reported that the Board of Trade will enforce a regulation that ten hours a day be the work of railway signalmen. The death is announced of Prince Clovis Bonaparte. Mr Fred Broughton, the dramatist, is dead. Washington, May 17. Senator Lodge is moving for a committee to enquire into a report that the Sugar Trust bribed Senators to secure votes in favor of the tariff. New Yokk, May 17. Floods have taken place in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Houses, mills, and bridges, Lave been washed away. The damage is estimated at 2,500,000 dollars. Constantinople, May 17. News has been received of a severe earthquake in Kars Caucasus. Nineteen persons were injured. Vienna. Maj 17. Kollarz, a local artist, and his three sisters, have committed suicide by taking poison,' to avoid grief at the survival of each other. Before taking the deadly drug, they spent the whole of Sunday in prayer and confession.