HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 260, 7 May 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

COLLAPSE OF THE NICARAGUA DIFFICULTY. REBELLION IN CUBA. THE SULTAN AND THE LONDON PRESS. THE CANADIAN DEFICIT. IPRB PJIEBB ASSOCI A.TION i London, May 3. The Ruapehu has left London for Wellington and Lyttelton. Obituary— The Earl of Selbourne. The report of the Opium Commission with regard to the traffic in India is decidedly adverse to the interference with the importation of the drug, and declares the agitation in England is due to overdrawn pictures as to its effects. Forty thousand people attended the eight-hours demonstration in Hyde Park, which is a decrease in the number as compared with former years. Mr Burns met with a mixed reception. A correspondent of the Daily News announces that the Sultan has instructed Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador in London, on behalf of the officials alleged to be implicated, to sue the London press for what are claimed to be libellous accusations respecting the massacres at Sassoun. > Ottawa, May 5. Mr Foster, Minister of Finance in Canada, proposes, in view of the deficit, to levy an excise duty of lOd and a customs duty of 6d per gallon on spirits. Berlin, May 6. Italy demands from Brazil a reply to her claims for compensation to her subjects, who suffered injury in the late revolution, within a week. Nicw York, May 5. The British marines have evacuated Corinto, and the Nicaraguan garrison has recrossed the lagoon to the mainland and resumed their previous stations. As the British warships left the fort they saluted the Nicaraguan flag. Madrid, May 5. Campos, commander of affairs in Cuba, has cabled to the Spanish Government, asking for 20,000 additional soldiers, and that others should be held in readiness to b« despatched at any moment to assist in quelling the insurrection. Vienna, May 6. M. Banffy explains that he forwarded to Vienna a draft of the protest, as he supposed Kalnoky would keep the promise made and forward it to the Vatican. County Kalnoky, objecting to the tone of the flprotest, and being desirous of supporting the priests, retained it. The Vienna press reproach the Vatican for causing perpetual trouble.