To-day’s News

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 739, 18 May 1894, Page 5

To-day’s News

LONDON, May 16 Fred Broughton, dramatist, is dead. De Labillier, in letter to the Times, comments on the Chancellor’s proposals regarding death duties, and says they will affect colonial property of persons living and dying in England, and will tend to retard the flow of capital for investment in Australia. Pender, in letter to Times, replying to arguments of Tupper, contends that fallacies respecting Pacific cable are Sandford Flemings’ and not his. He says it is possible to construct a single Pacific cable for £1,800,000, but it was impossible that any profit could be derived under terms laid down at the Postal Conference in Wellington in March last. Experts condemn crowded model dwellings in East London, where mortality is 41 per 1,000. They assert that carbonic acid in 1864 in London air was decimal 380 per 1000 in volume, while at present it is decimal 568 per 1,000. Mitchell, who supplanted evicted farmers at Castlebar, was attacked by body of roughs and badly cut about the head and limbs. Tbe injuries are of such nature that his life is despaired of. Several arrests been made. ST PETERSBURG, May 16 Arrests made in connection with recently discovered Nihilist conspiracy have given death blow to impending revolution, and it is believed it will require years for Nihilists to reorganise forces. ROME, May 16 Expected the Pope will convene National Synod in the United States in order to put an end to disputes between Archbishop Satolli, Papal representative, and the Bishops, and to appoint permanent Legate. MADRID, May 16 Senor Canovas del Castillo, addressing Cortes, declared it was impossible that any one nation should hold tbe keys of Gibraltar. CAIRO, May 16 Several Egyptian notables intend to take criminal proceedings against Ferdinard Lesseps, and other early Directors of Suez Canal, for embezzling shares of founders work granted by Said Pasha in 1857. WASHINGTON, May 16 Fire here rendered 500 families homeless.