YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7876, 8 April 1889, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Homo and Foreign. it is rumored that bank notes of the value of 10s will shortly be in oirculai ion. At a meeting of the Bai K of Australasia, Mr T. Sutherland, M.P., chairman of the directors, stated that the bank did not expect to experience any difficulty arising out of advances on land in Melbourne. An Australian wheat cargo has been sold at 37s 3d. Java sugar is quoted at 19s. The Sugar Bounties Convention will reassemble on May 1. The statistics of the Board of Trade show that the value of the imports and exports 6 for the last quarter is L 13,500,000 in excess of the corresponding period last year. The death is announced of the Duchess of Cambridge. On Saturday morning the Leicester police received a letter to the effect that during the races it was intended to assassinate H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Emperor William will inspect the Alexandrine. Tne corvette Sophie, now stationed on the East Coast of Africa, has been ordered to proceed to Samoa. Captain Wissman has assumed supreme command of German operations on the shore at Zanzibar. The ' Nord Deutsche Zeitung' denies that he has hoisted the German Imperial flag there, and states that the flag hoisted was only a mercantile one. Signor Crispi confirms the news of the death of the Negus of Abyasinia and states that although the movement is auspicious Italy will not be seduced into rash adventures in Abyssinia. Twelve counties and two cities of Ontario have decided in favor of the adoption of the Scott Temperance Act, At the nautical inquiry into the circumstances connected with the ship Sir Walter Raleigh going ashore on the French coast, the Board found that the master of the vessel was to blame for the accident, and suspended his certificate for nine months.

Before the expiration of the Easter holidays Sir Hercules Robinson will return to the Cape. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, New Zealand's Agent-General, has gone to Paris, where he will remain until after the opening of the Exhibition. Mr 0. T. Ritchie, president of the Local Government Board, has appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Vaccination Act. In his letter to the Royal Geographical Society, Mr Stanley describes the new regions through which he passed on his march to the relief of Emin Bey. The tribes inhabiting the forest, he says, are dwarfs in stature, and are cannibals. Tney are very numerous, and are great experts in the use of poisoned arrows.