LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 May 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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Received this day, at 9 23 a m. Concerning the Sobroan. London, May 2. The silks, forming a portion of the cargo of the Sobroan, have been saved. Warships are assisting in the attempt to refloat the steamer. Marquis of Bute’s Estate. The Marquis of Bute’s estate pays £78,558 to the Treasury in the shape of duties. The late Marqnis of Bute’s estate is valued at five million, Glasgow Exhibition. The Duke and Duchess of Fife opened an excellent exhibition in Glasgow, which includes an art gallery which cost a quarter of a million. Fish CultureThe New South Wales’ Agent-General inspected the Marine Zoological Laboratory at Plymouth with a view of introducing English marine fish into Australian waters. No Royal Levees. London, May 2. No Royal levees or Drawing Rooms are to be held during the current-year. The British Loan.

American financiers obtained one-sixth of the British war loan.

Tha Imperial Parliament.

Campbell-Bannerman raises the question of confidence in the proposed Government scheme of Army reform, and he maintains thatthesohemeisnotadapted to the special needs of England, and that it has increased the Empire’s burdens without adding to the military strength. The Times says that the scheme shows too little of Brodrick who is too much unregenerale of office. It urges that higher pay should prevail through the service.

Ritchie has invited the Australian Agents-Qeneral to express an opinion on the new German tariff. The throat of miners federation for a general strike as a protest against the coal tax is strongly resented by the Commoners. Japanese Bank Failures. Received this day at 8 10 a m. London, May 2. The Japanese bank failures are not serious. The capital of those that collapsed being small. A Ship. Building Combine. Five great American ship-building yards are amalgamating with the object of competing with English ship-building. Proposed Partition of Turkey. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the “ Times ” reports tbat at the instance of General Buropatkin, Minister for War, a secret military convention is negotiating for the purpose of giving Russia, in the event of complication, control of the Servian army, and adds that if Turkey is pardoned Servia receives Novibazar and a portion of Macedonia.