HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 247, 23 April 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

.» (Per Press Association). Paris, April 21. | Tho Senate has postponed consideration ; of the Madagascar vote until a Cabinet is i form -d possessing the confidence of both Chambers. Obituary— M. Leon Say. St. Petersburg, April 21. Corea has asked Russia to provide a guard for the King's palace and also appoint advisers and military teachers. Berlin, April 21. The death is announced of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, famous for his philanthropy on behalf of the Russian Jews and his co-religionists in all parts of the world, and also for his great wealth. .London, April 22. The Colonial Institute inemovalise the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish the system of charging double income tax both in Britain and the colonies on that it restricts investment. The P. and O. Company's debentures were subscribed twofold, and allotted to those tenderers over 118. Mr Fowler will move, as an amendment to Mr Chaplin's Bill, that it is unjust to restrict rateable relief to one class of property. President Cleveland, in declining an invitation from Birmingham to attend the celebration of the birthday of Shakespeare, said ho hoped the enabling sentiment and high destinj- awaiting the concerted action of the English-speaking people would never lose its potency. Constantinople, April 22. The Porte explains the Moslem governor at Zeitun is merely a temporary appointment as the Government feared to irritate the Mohammedan population by appointing a Christian at present.