HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE DUKE of YORK'S PEOPOSED , TOUR ! THE UNEMPLOYED AT HOME. OLD AGE PENSIONS. . RUMOURED ROYaL BETROTHAL. . FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY IN AMERICA. (Per Press Association.) London, February 7. The Westminster Gazette declares it to be necepsars to postpone the Duke of York's visit to Australia until 1896. The London poor and ragged school committee have examined Lady Downes, of Adelaide, as to the working of the children's councils) in South Australia. Sir "Vernon ILircourr, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said Government would appoint a committee to enquire into the unemployed problem with a view ot mitigating exceptional and temporary distress. Henry Broadhnrst, M.P. for Leicester, has tabled a motion entitling all persons of sixty years of age and over to a pension from the district in which they are resident. The imports decreased last month by .£1,700.000, while the exports increased by i:72.l;00. A man walked across icefloes in the Thames at London Bridge. Dowling, an Irish political prisoner, sentenced to imprisonment for life has been released. It is rumored that the Prince of Naplos is to be married to Princess Maude of Wales, daughter of the Prince of Wales, in May next. Washington', February 8. The House of Representatives rejected the Springers Bond Bill embodying the President's scheme for the relief of the financial pressure. No help from the legislature is now expected so 60,000,000 dollars worth of 4 per cent bonds will probably be issued to-day. It is understood they are already practically taken up, half in London and half in the United States.