HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 275, 27 May 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES. MAHOMMEDAN RISING. FRENCH SCHOOLS IN THE EAST. (Per Press Association.) Washington, May 24. Mr Olney, Secretary of State, protested against the action of General Weyler in forbidding the export of raw tobacco from Cuba. Senator Stewart, while contending that it would be folly to think of the secession of the Western States, predicts a revolution worse than the French revolution, unless the silver coinage is speedily recognised. Rome, May 26. The Premier, Sigujr Rudiui, said it was the policy of the Government to uphold the Triple Alliance, and maintain cordial relations with France and Russia. The friendship of Britain completed the circle of alliances. Obituary — The Marquis Menabren, Italian 'statesman and general, a;tat 86. London, May 26. At a congress of delegates from Co operative Societies, presided over by Lord Winchelsea, the report shows they have a capital of fifteen millions sterling. Tho trade done amounted to lift y millions, and the profit to five millions. Shanghai, May 2(5. The Mahommedan rebels have been successful in the Province of Knnsu, the moat north-western Province of China, and are advancing westward. Paris, May 28. The Government propose to impose a tax on income derived from foreign rentes. A propaganda has forbidden a French monastic order founding schools in the East.