CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2432, 20 May 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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(PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, May 18. Sir C. Russell forced the American counsel at the Behriog Sea Commission to reluctantly produce a seoret report ebowing that the diminution of seals wan owing to the mismanagement of the " rookeries," and not to depredations of sealerß. ViscountGormanston, the new Governor of Tasmania, sails in the Buapehu. The Times says the attitude of Mr B. L, Stevenson in Samoa has been completely jdGtified by the bureaucratic blindness" and pompons ineffioienoy of officials and the financial disaster revealed in a reoent bluebook. VIENNA, May 18. Some exciting scenes have taken place recently in the Bohemian Diet. The Young Czech Opposition party assaulted the official reporter, destroyed his notes, cbased the Speaker from ths chair, and wrecked the furniture of the Chamber. CALCUTTA, May 18. It is probable that fresh taxation will have to be levied in India owing to a farther fall in the value of the rupee. PABIS, May 18. News from Siam states that the Aunamite Column attacked the Lootian tribe at Khong. Most of the French officers and many of the Annauoite soldiers were killed. MELBOURNE, May 19. The Governor has sent a cable to the Queen, congratulating her, on behalf or the colony, on the betrothal of the Duke of York and Princess May. A scheme for dealing with the unemployed difficulty, whioh is under consideration, proposes that the men should be billeted on unimproved leasehold in the colony at the expense of the owners. The Colonial Treasurer generally approves of the idea. BRISBANE, May 19. A calmer feeling prevails in regard to banking matters.