HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 232, 1 April 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

4 A HOME RULE RESOLUTION CARRIED. COLONIAL PRODUCE in ENGLAND GREAT BRITAIN AND NICARAGUA THE KAISER and the REICHSTAG. MR BEN TILLETT'S LIBEL CASE. THE REVOLT IN CUBA. THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE. (PRR PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, March 31. Sir James Fergusson was re-elected, after a poll, a director of tbe London and Australasian Debenture Company. Obituary — Baron Alester. Tbe majority of those engaged for the past two years as a Royal Commission into the question of the aged poor, report that they cannot declare in favour of a scheme for State pensions, owing to financial and economic reasons ; and, further, that the statement of aged laborers generally tbat tbeir only prospect is the workhouse is erroneous. Danish butter is selling at 93? per cwt, The Revenue for the last quarter amounted to 30 and 3 quarter millions. It has been decided to nominate Mr Gully as the Government Candidate for the speakership. Many of the steamship companies intend to tender for the carriage of Victorian produce to the English market. In the House of Commons the motion tabled by Mr J. H. Dalziel, M.P. for Kirkcaldy, in favor of grantingja Legislature for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, each to have control of its own domestic affairs, was carried by 128 votes to 102. During the discussion, and while the division was taken, the leaders of tbe Government were absent from the Chamber. The Royal Oak Gold Mining Company of Hauraki, witb a capital of LIOO.OOO is being floated, half of the shares having been subscribed. In tbe House of Commons Mr H. C. Gardner, President of tbe Board of Agriculture, said the Government would refuse to impose retaliatory duties on colonial produce, and pointed out that tbe bounty of colonial Governments had assisted the butter and cheese industry. In tbe libel action brought against tbe Morning Post by Alderman Ben Tiliett, a verdict was returned in favour of the defendants. The Court decided tbat tbe article exaggerated the facts pf the case, but it was not a libel upon Mr Tiliett. Leading Australian shipowners estimate a loss of L2OOO on the voyage if they charter cattle steamer is to carry 9000 at L 6 per head. Washington, March 29. Two warships bave been ordered to Nicaragua to watch the result of tbe British ultimatum. Madrid, March 30. News bas been received that the leaders of tbe insurrection in Cuba have fied. Berlin, March 29. In tbe Reichstag the President refused to receive a resolution moved by one of the Socialists Questioning the right of tbe Emperor to send to Prince Bismarck the telegram he had sent regarding the recent vote of tbe Reichstag.