HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 231, 30 March 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

• CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. THE PROPAGANDA AND ENGLISH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. FROZEN* MEAT FOR THE MALTA GARRISON. SLAVERY IN QUEENSLAND. MR B*"N TILLETT SUES THE MORNING POST. (Per Press Association.) London, March 29. The Australian Customs Bill has re ceived the Roya! assent. The Duke of York, who has been prostrated by influenza has now recovered. The cattle from Australia, on the s.s. Bothnia have been landed, after great difficulty, at Dunkirk, in France There are 72, and they are only in midling condition. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of South Australia the advisability of prosecuting the directors for fraud was discussed and it was eventually decided to consult tho defence committee on the matter. The London and Australian Debenture Company rejected the amendment calling on the Directors to resign and ' passed the report. Nelson Bros, have seenred the contract for supplying mutton at Malta. Mr Ben Tillett, the well-known La» hour leader, is suing tiie Morning Post for libel, for stating that he is receiving a large salary and otherwise benefiting himself while the docK labourers are starving. In his evidence in the case Mr Tillett complained that this allegation injured his candidature for a scat in the House of Commons. His salary, exclusive of allowances for expenses, was £160 per annum. The Timos considers the appointment of Sir Hercules Robinson to the Cape a grievous blundor which every patriotic colonist must hope to ?ec retrieved. Mr Hogan, M.P., in the Contemporary asserts that slavery worse thau that which prevailed in America is practised in Queensland and Fiji. It is rumoured Sir H. Loch will be offered the Governorship of New South Wales, but it is officially stated nothing has been decided, The threatened strike in South Wales has bceu averted. The sliding scale will be continued for 18 mouths. Messrs Cbaffcy Brothers iutend to float the Ronmark irrigation colony South Australia, into a public company, with its head offices ia London. The Propaganda has authorised Engsh Catholic stiul ents to enter Protestant Universities, on condition that they also attend Catholic private courses of tniiion. The Scotch depositors in the City of Melbourne Bank insist on receiying lull payment from the profits before any dividend is paid on the shares. Ottawa, March 29. The Canadian Government has instructed the Commissioner to Australia, Mr Larke, to report upon goods suitable for profitable interchange with Australia on a prefential basis. Berlin*, March 29. Owing to friction between Catholic missions on the Marshall Islands and the New Guinea Company, the German Government proposes that the Company shoiild surrender its sovereign rights in the Islands.