NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8966, 17 April 1890, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE.

By i3Lß.rrp.ia Telege;aph. — Copyright. (per. press association. > London, A piil 15. A strike of the bands employed at the manufactories of R. Hornsby and Sons, the well known implement makers, has been compromised. Obituary—Matthew Harris, M.F. for- Galway East. The Australian cruisers have been renamed, the Pandora being changed to the Katoomba, the Pelorus to the Miidura, the Persian to the Wallaroo, the Pi.cenix to the Tauranga, the Psyche •to the Kingarooma, the Whiting to the Boomerang, ana the "Wryard to the Ivaivakatta., Zanzibar, April 15. It is now understood that Emin Pasha’s Hi at caravan to the interior of Africa is but the forerunner of four or five others. , The Germans are buying immense warehouses here. Sydney, April 10. The lievs Cassidy and Ahern, of Wellington, have purchased the steamer Terranora for the Fiji trade, which will be combined with the Church Mission trade. The topic of the hour is the situation at Bourke. The Darling is still • rising, and the crisis is expected tonight or to-morrow. It is thougnt that the town will be safe if the embankment holds. The emergency entails increasing watchfulness, aa the line of earthworks is three miles in length. Nearly L7OOO has been spent on the embankment. Fortunately the weather is beautifully fine. and children laden with all their worldly goods are leaving by every train. The loss of stock is enormous. On many stations not a single head is left alive. Melbourne, April 16. Sailed, yesterday—Te Anau, for the Bluff. SPECIAL. London, April 15, Stanley has left Brindisi for London, via Paris, His reception in Lon don takes place on 2nd prox.. and the Prince of Wales will preside on the occasion. The Ulster Unionists’ Executive have expressed approval of Mr Bal foui’s Irish Land Purchase Bill. Murdoch, captain of the Australian Eleven, denies that the object of the team in visiting England is to make money out of the gate receipts. He says that, on the contrary, it is true love for the game that induced the eleven to make the trip. It is considered undesirable to allow Avabi Pasha, now an exile in Ceylon, to return to Egypt, where his presence would be a disturbing element in the country. The Duke of Cambridge, speaking at Guildhall, said the rumour of his resignation and the statement attributed to him at Portsmouth were untrue. It was impossible for him to accept an inferior position if the office of commander-in-chief were modified. The amount of the Victorian loan is regarded aa excessive. It is slated that the opinion of the London advisers was ignored, and that a lower minimum would have been preferable, with less rebates. It is feared that the loan will be barely covered at an average of 101, unless tbe market improves. The Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to defer his final decision as to tbe investment of trust funds in colonial, stocks until after the Budget speech is delivered. Replying to questions in the House of -Commons, Sir James Ferguason stated that the authorities at Lisbon had received no intimation of the proposed expedition against Mpondo, in the Shire district, but that if it were ascertained that such an attack was contemplated immediate orders would he issued directing the expedition to be abandoned. The Delagoa railway dispute is still unsettled. Rome, April 15. The Italian Government intend sending Captain Oaaati, who was rescued from Equatorial Africa, in company with Emin Pasha, by Stanley, on another exploring mission through Africa. Vienna, April 15. The Austrian Government has decided not to interfere in any way with the labour demonstration in May.