YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7505, 25 April 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Home and Foreign. Mr T. J. Condon, M.P. for Tipperary East, has been arrested on a charge of inciting Irish tenants to withhold the payment of rents, In the House of Commons, replying to a question from Mr Howard Vincent, Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that under the existing treaties even the colonies were prevented from conceding British produce a fiscal advantage over that from foreign countries. He considered that it would be impolitic at present to hurriedly terminate such treaties. Her Majesty Queen Victoria was most cordially welcomed on her arrival at Innsbruck by the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. At the wool sales there was a fair demand. Prices are unchanged. Thirteen thousand bales were sold. The frozen meat by the lonic and ship Rangitikei is selling at from 4d to 4Ad. The market is steady. [rl the House of Commons Mr Gladstone has tabled a motion to equalise ihe charges on real and personal property. Extra police protection has been afforded to Mr J. T. Balfour in consequence of reports being received that the Invincibles were plotting against his life.

A syndicate tendered for the New •South Wales loan to tho extent of L 2,500,000 at LI 03 10s. Tho official statement gives the total amount tendered for as L 7,050,000, and the average LI 03 12s 2d.

Australian.

The president of the Executive Commissioners of the Melbourne Exhibition is devising means to bring together during the Exhibition all classes of men of science, technical knowledge, and artistic culture in order to obtain the fullest advantages from their experience of trades and social congresses. Discussions on the questions of sanitary science and professional methods will be organised. It is computed that the verdict of the Victorian Supreme Court awarding Bolger, a bookmaker, L 25 damages for wrongful ejectment from tho racecourse of the Amateur Turf Club will result in a loss of L 2,500 per annum to the club, as by the judgment they have no power to impose license fees on bookmakers.

It is expected that an Italian line of steamers to Australia will shortly be inaugurated. The New South Wales Government will introduce a Bill into the Legislative Assembly providing for the imposition of a tax on the value of land and not on the acreage, and also a Bill for the taxation of property. It is also intended to introduce measures for the establishment of an agricultural college near Sydney, and experimental farms in the north, south, and western districts.

Sir Henry Parkes is of opinion that the recent cablegram received from London that Lord Knutsford considered the exclusion of Chinese from Australia for twenty years presented serious difficulty is without foundation, as such information would not be communicated by the Colonial Office until the Colonial Government had been apprised. The action of the miners on the Croydon goldfields in ejecting all Chinese except those holding business licenses has caused a great deal of inconvenience, as no Chinese cooks are now available on the tield, and all the Chinese gardeners have abandoned their vegetable gardens. The police who -were despatched to Mount Merlin Station, Clanowong, to inquire into the reported murder of a white boy and four blacks by the manager of tho station have returned, and report that the rumor is entirely without foundation, and that its origination was the outcome of spite by a boy engaged on the station. Captain Hutter, of the German steamer Otisle, while on a voyage from Finchaven (New Guinea) to Cooktown, jumped overboard while in a state of high fever, and was drowned The expedition has returned from Finchaven, and they report that they have discovered what are believed to be traces of the explorers Von Uulow and Heinstein and servant. The spot where the articles were found appears to have been the scene of an eruption, and it is believed that the party were engulphed.