YESTERDAY’S CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 8119, 20 January 1890, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES

Home and Foreign.

Experiments made on board H.M.S, Benbow proved that the 100-ton gun is de fective.

The remains of the late Lord Napier of Magdala will be interred in the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The funeral is to be carried out on a grand scale. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and the National Mortgage and Agency Company a dividend of 5 per cent. The Belgian Government have instituted an “ injury fund” of 2,000,000fr for workmen in the employment of the Government. The Johnstown (G.S.) flood relief fund has reache L 590,000. The death is announced of the Duke of Aosta.

[Prince Amadeus (Amadei Ferdinando Maria, Buko of Aosta) was the secor d sone of the late Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, and was born May 30, 1843. Entering the Briny, he attained the rank of chief of a brigade of cavalry. After several European princes had refused to accept the Spanish throne, Prince Amadeus was eleett d by the Cortes by 101 votes to 120 in 1870. He landed at Carthagenia on the same day that General Prim, who had offered him the crown, died from wounds received from an assassin. King Amadeus’s position soon became one of extreme difficulty, a Garlist rising in the North and an insurrection in the arsenal at Ferral, followed by an attempt in 1873 to assassinate the Kitg and Queen, who were fired upon by five men, causing him to abdicate. Returning to Italy he was created Duke of Aosta, and received the rank of Lieutenant-general. He was married in 1867 to Princess Mary, daughter of Prince Charles Emmanuel del Pazzi della Cistcrna, who died in 1876 ; and in 1888 to his near relative, Princess Letitia, daughter of Prince Napoleon and Princess CJothilhc, and sister of Prince Victor Napoleon], News is to hand of a terrible famine in the Soudan. The mortality is reported to be enormous, and it is stated that the Mahdi’a followers had been disbanded in consequence.

Arrangements are being made to double the present fleet of the Norddeutseher-Lloyd line to Australia.

Regent Christina has asked Senor Martinez to form a new Spanish Cabinet. Judges and magistrates in Crete are resigning their offices, and there are manj symptoms of further trouble in Crete.

Parleying has been resumed at Washington in connection with the Behring fisheries dispute. America now seems inclined to abandon her claims to the exclusive ownership of the fisheries.

Princess Maud is now recovering. From advices to hand from Paris and New York, the mortality from influenza does not appear to be increasing. Sir William F. D. Jervois presided at the United Service Institute last evening, when Colonel Robert Elias read a paper on colonial defence. He contends that in order to meet any emergency Australia must be self-dependent in the matter of defence; and in order that this end might be attained he suggested the amalgamation of all colonial forces, the holding of manceuvres in convenient centres, and connection by rail between all the Australian colonies. The colliery hands in Westphalia are now demanding _ a reduction in the hours of labor to eight hours, and an increase of wages by 50 per cent. The port stokers and coal men of Hamburg have struck owing to a reduction in the rate of wages.

Ten thousand miners of Charleroi, Bel gium, have renewed their strike.

Five hundred wharfingers at Bermondsey have struck for payment during meal times.

Australian

The Hon. J. G. Ramsay, formerly Chief Secretary of South Australia, was horribly burned by the explosion of a lamp in a railway carriage, and died shortly afterwards.