HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 334, 8 June 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN TRADE WITH GER- ' MANY < — 1 THE LONDON CAB STRIKE. < THE SUTHERLAND WILL CASE. « THE DEATH DUTIES FRANCE AND TURKEY. [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.] London, June 7. Mr Bruce, of New South Wales, finds there is little encouragement in Germany to push the trade in Australian produce. It is expected the cab strike will con tinue for some little time yet. The men are offering on an average of lis 6d per day, but the owners insist on the payment of 13s lOd, and there seems very small prospect of a compromise being effected The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the Chancellor's proposal to levy death duties on co'onial estates without first obtaining tho assent cf the colonies is dangerous and revolutionary. The Southland will case has been settled by tho Court. Tho Duchess claimed a sum of one million and a half pounds aud has been awarded half a million with an annuity of £5000. The foreign countries are protesting against the English estate duties. L'jrd lhurlow is bankrupt, llisliabih ties amount to £430,000, and aßserts to £30,0' ! 0. Edison is proceeding to London the third ait of Grundy's " Sowing the Wind " jointly by telopbone and his new instrument, tho kinotograph. Tbe latter reproduce' 1 75.000 photogr»pb.«. At a Conference oj the Radinal Party, it was urged that the House of Lords should be abolished or that the Government should legislate for the remission of Bills direct to the Crown after the Lords bad rejected them. Sir Charles Dilke moved that the franchise should rest on personal fitness alone, that the constituences should pay election expenses, and that Parliament should pay its members. Ihe resolution was carried. Bkussels, June 7. Tho Lower House finally passed the Electoral Bill by 70 votes to 44 Constantinople, June 7. . The Turkish officials are much concerned to find French t .oops garrisoned in the citadel ol Kassaburgen, though the spot is well within the frontier of Tripoli. The Tripolitans arc much alarmed as they fear a French invasion is intended.