HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 243, 16 April 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

LABOUR TROUBLES in ENGLAND. PLOT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF WARSAW. THE BOOT STRIKE. THE CUBAN REBELLION. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION) London, April 11. The city builders are insisting on the right to employ non-unionists, and a strike of 50,000 men is regarded as inevitable. The entire body of cabmen threaten to strike owing to the re classing of vehicle. The Home Secretary is endeavoring to settle the strike. Mr Nathaniel Spens replaces Sir J. Fersjusson on the directorate of the London and Australasian Debenture Company. The directors consider that throe directors are sufficient. It is also proposed to write off .£IOO per share on the paid up capital, and call up £i> per sham of the uncalled liability. An attempt to burn a boot factory at Leicester, wherein firemen lodged, failed owing to the energy of the firemen. The death is annouced of Mr J. Lawrence Gane, Q.C., M.P for East Leeds. Madrid, April 15. Late information states that the Spanish forces have severely defeated the rebels in Cuba, and that two generals have been killed and many of the enemy captured. Viknna, April 15. Severe earthquake shocks have been felt at Trieste and at Kratnbury, but the damage was only slight. Paris, April 15. News has been received that the French troops defeated the Hovas at Mnlvorano, and nre steadiiy advancing in the interior of Madagascar. St. Petkksburg, April 12. An extensive plot has been discovered in Warsaw to murder the GovernorGenera), Count Schouvaloi), M»n.y pursons suspected of being concerned have been arrested. Washington. April 15. Obituary — Professor Daua. There is a general movement in America by railways and banks to resist the Income Tax, which the President pe-'ks to impose regardless of the Su promc Court's decision.