HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 272, 22 May 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

PARIS BOURSE DISQUIETED. SCENE AT A BANQUET. RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY. A BIGAMIST SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS. (Per Press Association.) London, May 21. Ninety employers have conceded the demands of the builders, and 5,000 men have returned to work. It is expected the other employers will also make the concession. The first clause of Mr Chapliu's Agricultural Rating Bill has been passed. The Dillonites are pressing the Parnellites to co-operate in connection with the Dublin^ Convention in September. Charles Baker who, in 1883, under the name of Crispi, had a land agency business in Melbourne, has been sentenced to seven years for bigamy. Harper's negotiations in connection with the proposed modification of the reconstruction scheme of the Commercial Bank of Australia nre proceeding satisfactorily. Pabis. May 21. The Paris Bourse is in a state of disquiet owing to a fear the Government intends to impose a tax on incomes derived from rentes. Sofia, May 21. At a banquet in the city Prince Ferdinand was about to propose the toast of •' The Powers," when the Russian envoy insisted that the Princes under the suzer ainty of the Sultan of Turkey should take precedence in the toast list. Prince Ferdinand resented the suggestion, and re trained from proposing any to«sr. Washington, May 21. The House of Representatives has im posed the education test on immigrants.