CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3085, 29 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

B? Elkcteio Tbleoeaph. — Copy bibht

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, Maroh 25.

A European syndicate has made proposals to the Sultan of Turkey to complete a railway from Scutari, opposite Gonstan* tinople, to Bagdad, on the Tigris. The cost is estimated at £12,000,000, and the syndioate eeek to obtain the money by drawing gfgantio lotteries.

Tbe Freeman's Journal bas absorbed tbe National Press, on terms extremely advantageous to tbe proprietor of the latter paper. Mr Dillon bas been appointed chairman of tbe new company.

The weekly returns of tbe Bank of England Bbow the total reserve to be £17,440,000, being an increase of £14,000 as compared with tbe previous week. Tbe proportion of reserve to liabilities is 4382.

LISBON, Marob 27.

News bas been received from tbe East Coast of Africa tbat a party of Portuguese travelling defeated a band of slave bunting Arabs ■.■ near Lake Tanganyika, and liberated fifteen hundred slaves. PARIS, March 27. A thousand oab drivers have gone on strike in Paris.

Foreign anarchists are being expelled from Franoe.

OTTAWA,' March 27, Lanrier asserts that every party in Canada is loyal to England.

BUENOS AYRES, March 27.

The Liberals of the Argentine have refused to agree to reciprocity with United States.

NEW YORK, Maroh 27.

Obituary— Walt Whitman.

Tbe negotiations re tbe Bebring Sea dispute have been published. The Marquis of Salisbury wired on Saturday that be was willing tbat in the final decision of tbe arbitrators they should assess the damages done to tbe sealers from tbe losing side.

MELBOURNE, March 28.

The Ballarat Banking Oompany has suspended payment after a sucoesßlul existenoe of twenty-seven years. Deposits amount to £263,000, and the assets are stated to be worth £414,000. PERTH, March 28.

Sir Wm, Robinson intends to return to tbe colony ; his continued illness in England rendering it unadvisable that he should remain there. .

Mr. Haynes, Swanson's solicitor, now denies that the prisoner made any confesßion to him.

MADEID, March 28.

Seven steamers, including two warships, have been burnt at Barcelona, owing to petroleum oatobing fire.