CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3087, 30 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Eleotrio Telegeiph. — Copybioht

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, Maroh 27.

The Statist declares that tbe Australian banks are trading overmuch in English deposits, and says tbat it is an unsound policy to have the liabilities and assets on opposite eides of the world.

Mr. Howard Vincent has given notioe to aak wby, if the self-governing colonies are able to form commercial leagues admitting foreigners, England is unable to form an empire league.

Two Unionists voted for the Payment of Members Bill, and four Liberals against it. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Chamberlain did not vote.

Cbanaan, tbe mandarin alleged to be responsible for the oiroulation of antiforeign literature in Hunan, iias been arrested.

Baron Hirsoh has spent a quarter of a million sterling on the Jewish colony which he formed in Argentine Republio. The natives were unfriendly to settlers.

LONDON, Maroh 29.

Lieutenant Clayton, of the Scots Guards, has been appointed Aide-de-camp to Lord Glasgow.

NEW YORK, March 28.

Arrived— Barqoe B. Werner, from Auckland, November 11th ; barque Essex, from Auckland, Deoember 24th, at Boston; barque Hector, from Wellington, November 29tb.

St. PETERSBURG, Maroh 28. Terrible distress is prevalent at Kher son.

The Rotbßcbilds state tbat the relief funds subscribed in England have been the means of preventing enormous mortality.

Russia is issuing through the Imperial Bank of St. Petersburg a railway loan oi twelve millions at 4£ per cent.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 29.

Two Russians living at Bielostock have been charged with the murder of 40 emigrants, from whom they obtained money under the pretence of smuggling them aoross the frontier.

PARIS, March 29.

Owing to the alarm occasioned by the outrages of Anarchists, 30 per cent, of tbe foreigners in Paris are leaving. Proposals are before tbe Chamber to make the State responsible for damage committed by Anarobists. Concierges (door porters) are advised to keep doors closed as a preventative to Anarchist outrages. The police are watching the bouses of the magistrates.

BERLIN, March 27.

Tbe German Catholic press is taunting the Government with the fact that no crises used to happen under the Bismarck regime.

The Reichstag has voted £100,000 for the representation of Germany at Chicago.

Herr Liebkneobt, leader of tbe Sooitl. Democrat Party, asserted in the Reichstag that the military system was gnawing the vitals of tbe European nations. He advocated the transformation of a portion of the army into militia, and denounced the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine as a crime and a blunder.

Count Yon Caprivi defended the separation of the offices held by him, arguing tbat the Ohanoellor of the Empire ought not to be involved in a crisis wbiob affected Prussia only.

The Federal Council of Germany has recommended the construction of strategic railways at a cost of half a million.

BEISBANE, March 29.

Parliament was opened to-day. In tbe speech from Throne, necessity was shown for immediately removing restriction respecting tbe employment of colored labour, and authority was also asked for tbe construction of railways on land grant system. It was explained tbat the latter system was necessitated owing to condition of the money market prooladiog the obtaining of a loan. It is hoped tbat time will admit of the discussion of the Federal Bill. A measure will be introduced to give effect to proposals for tbe establish* ment of provinces.