HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

_ -+ (Per Press Association.) Ijondon, October 29. Reid, chairman of the New Explorers Syndicate, in a letter to the Financial j News states that many of tbe leading issuing houses have decided to boycott West Australian properties until tbe laws respecting labor conditions are altered. The News adds that Government had better yield without compulsion. October 30. The troops in Suakim return next month. Capetown Oct. 30. Ndema and Bank, two more important Matabele tribes, have yielded up their arms. Calcutta, October 30. A Sepoy ran amuck in Fort Sandeman, and killed Lieuts. Yeats aud Downes, and two privates, and wounied the third officer. Bucharest, October 30. The King of Roumania has laid the foundation stone of the new harbour works at Constanza, on the Black Sea. The harbour is to be completed in six years, and it is hoped it will bo the means of diverting the Indian and Australian trade. The seaport is to be put in communication with Ostend via Vienna and Bucharest by special express trains to compete with the Orient express. St. Petersburg, Oct. 30. The Czar has started on his way home. The currency reform proposed by M. De Witte, Minister of Finance, has been postponod at tbe wish of the Czar. Paris, Oct. SO. Castel, alias Cabert, wars sen teheed to imprisonment for life for the murder of Delahaff, a stamp collector, whose body was found in a travelling trunk at the Colville Railway Station. Castel's wife was sentenced to three years as an accessory. The Trust Agency of Amsterdam, has declared a dividend of 20 per cent.