HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 250, 25 April 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

FRANCE AND EGYPT. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. THE PARIS BUS STtiIKE. THE LATE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Per Press Association). London, April 23. The citizens of Edinburgh intend to giye Lord Plopetoun a banquet on hia return. In the House of Commons the Factories and Workshops Bill has been read a second time. At a mass meeting on the island ot Cyprus, it was decided to petition Great Britain to transfer the island to Greece. At the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company's meeting in London, the Chairman said it was highly improbable that! any call -would be made. The House of Commons has voted "Viscount Peel, ex-Speaker, a pension of L4OOO. Sir William Robinson is urging the Imperial Government to hasten the survey of the north-west coast of Western Australia, and place the vote for the protection of the aborigines on the same footing as the Governor's salary. The Colonial Office ia unlikely to agree to abrogate the provision secured to the Western Australian aborigines, under the Constitution Act, though Sir W. Robinson's efforts to secure a compromise more satisfactory to the colony may probably succeed The Queen has left for Darmstadt. The Committee of Enquiry appointed by the Home Office condemns the present prison system and advises sweeping changes, especially in the direction of , showing greater leniency to prisoners. The Queensland loan is quoted at 33s 2d to 33s 4d premium. Paris, April 23. France has occupied Schalie Borgy, in Western Africa. The omnibus strikers in Paris are exhibiting violent behaviour, and many arrests have been made. Washington', April 24. Mr Cleveland will stand for the Presidency next year. He will oppose the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Catbo. April -4 The Cairo correspondent of the Times wires that the visit of M. Dcloncle, the well-known French statesman, to Egypt, has been an utter fiasco. The foreign colonists took no notice of him, and French residents withheld their sympathy. Ottawa, April 24. i Tho Government aye drafting a Bill to provide for the admission of Cape and Austrulhn wines at the same duty as French wines.