HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 331, 5 June 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

TROUBLES WITH THE BOERS. FORMIDABLE RISING IN HONG KONG. — _• THE LONDON CAB STRIKE. THE BRITISH DEATH DUTIES. LORD HOPE A BANKRUPT AFFAIRS IN INDIA, A BAND OF COKEY'S FOLLOWERS DROWNED. THE BULGARIAN CRISIS (per press association ) London, June 4. O'Donovan Rossa received an ovation on visiting the South of Ireland. Western Australia has issued a 4 per cent, loan of £540,000, with a minimum of 10*2. Teuders will be opened on the J2th inst. Lord Francis Hope it ft bankrupt. His assets amount to £190,0 )0, and bis ha bii'iei to £400,000. The London cab strike still continues. The cab-drivers are willing to submit their case to arbitration. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in the House of Commons that he intended to deduct the death duties paid on colonial estates before levying the estate duty. Clause 2 of the Bill only included property outside Great Britain if it was liable to legacy, and succession duty. Pabis, June 3. M. Casimir-Perier, the late Premier, has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Burdeau VicePresident, Capetown, June 4. The chief Mangato, who announced his intention of opposing Transvaal coercion, has defeated a Boer patrol. The press generally concurs in the punishment meted but to the Troopers Wilson and Danielb who were sentenced to i 4 years' imprisonment. B os a Koxg, Juno 4. A formidable rising has broken out in Manchusta. The rebels captured Sarsing arsenal and repeatedly inflicted defeat on the Imperial troops. Sofia, June 8 It is reported that M. Stambouloff has been arrested. It is uilegeTl that he has been concerned in a plot to banu-h Prince Ferdinand and place on tho throne Count Hartenau, a child of four, son of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria (who abdicated in 1886), with himself as Regent. CALCUrTA, June 4. The mysterious tree smearing continues in certain districts in India, and the natives still appear to b« in a state of unrest. Washington, June 3 A company of Coxeyite3 was encamped at Pueblo, Colorado, during the flood. They are all tnis«ing, and it is believed the unfortunate men have been drowned.