CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE DECEABED WIFE'S SISTER BILL. THE PROPOSED PO3TAL REDUCTIONS [BY ELECTRIC TELEtfRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) I.UNITHD PKEBS ASSOCIATION. I LOndWt, 30th April. J n fhe House of Common* to-dt£y the Deceased WltVs Sister Bill passed tifs second reading by a majority of 67. Speaking during the debate, Sir James Fergueson said that the agitation in Adelaide in favour of the Bill was entirely artificial and fiotitious, and was contrary to the whole religious opinion of the colony. Mr. Gibson, patentee of a locomotive link motion, has Bailed for Melbourne, where he expects that his patent will receive a fair trial. A syndicate has already guaranteed that the patent Bhall be tried on the Victorian railways. Messrs. Penny and He j man, a firm in Blenheim, New Zealand, have made a present of a qdantity of frozen mutton and butter to Sir H. A. Isaac's) ths Lofd Mayor of London. The Agents-General have, throngh the Agency of Sir A. Blyth (South Australia), forwarded cable messages to their respective colonies disclosing Mr. Eaikos 1 proposals for the reduction of the colonial postal rateß. Zanzibar, Ist May. Mwan2a has placdd Uganda exclusively within the influonoe of the British East Africa Company.