CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 18

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, April 20.

The Financial News advises the creditors of the Australian banks to~Sccept a moderate scaling down of the rates of interest. They will be glad in the end, tbe writer say*, if prudent counsels prevail now.

Tbe Times says it is the G >vernment parcbases on behalf of the Post Office tbat have inflated consols to the present high pitob. Under the circumstances it is unfair to treat them as a standard of values.

April 21. The Bradford wool market is dnll and prices are unchanged.

The Admiralty is recruiting 2000 stokers for the new ships coming off the stocks. The Orient S.S. Company'6 { balance sheet shows a profit cf L 12.058. A dividend was declared of 5s per share. April 22. The P. and O. Company's debentures were subscribed twofold, and allotted to those tenderers over 118. President Cleveland, in declining an invitation from Birmingham to attend the celebration of the birthday of Shakespeare, said he hoped tbe ennobling sentiment and high destiny waiting the concerted action of tbe English-speaking people would never lose potency.

Tbe Colonial Institute memorialise the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish the system of charging doable income tax both in Great Britain and the colonies, oa the ground that it restriots investments.

Baron Hmch's death has disturbed the Home market. He left a fortune of 20 millions.

April 24. Cardinal Vaughan and the Roman Catholic bishops generally approve of the Voluntary Schools Bill, but complain that the Catholic schools are penalised. They urge that the grants should be increased. April 25. Sir Lyon Playfair and the Marquis of Lome, who were judges to decide the boat scheme of Imperial customs union, for which The Statist offered a prize of 1000 guineas, have given their award, dividing the prize between Messrs J. G. Colmer (of Kensington) and Ralph Ashstone (of Kent). Owing to the prevalence of smallpox in Gloucester; bu»iness is paralysed.

The British Medical Journal bas refused Mr Playford's advertisement for doctors for Adelaide Hospital, and reiterates its warning as to acceptance of the position, further declaring that the Government telegram unfairly states the situation. Mr Playford, in a letter to the journal, says there are no serious grounds why doctors should' not accept the po&itlon. ' Stoddart and many well-known English cricketers were present to meet the Australian cricket team on -their arrival at Tilbury. The Australians will be entertained at a banquet by the cricketera of Surrey County on May 1. April 26. West Australia is issuing a loan of L 750.000 at 3 per cent., with a minimum of 96. Tenders will be opened on May 4. The Globe is responsible for the statement that a European in the confidence of Chinese statesmen asserts that the districts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Shiegtirg will be ceded to Russia on condition that China is protected against all her enemies.

The Ameer's sons Habibulla and Nasrullah Khan have been decorated with the order of K.C.M.G.

Sir Donald Smith succeeds Sit O. Tapper 96 Canadian agent in London. The Queen bas created a new order of knighthood, to be known as the Royal Victorian Order.

Beblih, April 20. Princess Alexandra of Ooburg was married to Prince Hohenlohe Lanjeburg, the Governor of , Alsace and Lorraine. Emperor William and the Duke of York wore among those present at the ceremony.

It is reported that the Government have deeded to repurchase from the German New Guinea Company their territory in New Guinea for half a million mark*.

April 23. Baron Hammeratein, formerly leader of the German Conservative party, has been convicted of forgery and sentenced to three years' imprisonment and deprivation of all civil rights for five years. c

Vienna, April 20. DrLueger haa been. re-elected mayor of Vienna.

St Peteksbubg, April 21. The Russian Red Cross contingent for Abyssinia baa been ordered to the French colony on the Red Sea, owiDg to a fear that Italy might objcot to their landing at Massowab. Oorea haa asked Russia to provide a guard for the King's palace, and alao to appoint advisers and military teachers. Constantinople, April 21. £bj Port* baa ordered VI battalions ot

troops to Charpufc to keep the Kurdish marauders in order.

. April 22. The Porte explains that the appointment of a Moslem Governor of JSeitun is merely temporary, as the Government feared to irritate the Mohammedan population by appointing a Christian at present.

April 23. Christians and Turks fought for two days at Apiskepi. Fifty were killed. Athens, April 24. The Cretans have appealed to Greece for protection. The f aneral of the late Greek statesman M. Triconpis was attended by 50,000 people. The King was present. Madrid, April 21. The Spanish Government have informed the United S bates that they will conoede extensive measures of autonomy to Cuba in a month. Lisbon. April2o. A wealthy gentleman and his tsoachman have been killed in this city by the explosion of a dynamite bomb. Stockholm, April 23. The Swedish Parliament has sanctioned an expenditure of seven million kroner on tbe navy. GABUii, April 20. The Ameer's war against Kifiristan is ended. Tbe conquered tribes are being I treated leniently. Hongkong, April 23. The plague is increasing. i Zanzibar, April 21. The Germans anticipate trouble with the Arab chief Inbanuk, The steamers conveying the German - troops are frequently observed passing Zanzibar for Tangaporb, a plaoe of entry for German Bast Africa. April 23. The chief Mbaruk, with 1100 followers, has surrendered to Colonel Wissmann. Capetown, April 21. The cattle inspector at Salisbury has discovered a cure for rinderpest, which consists in dosing the animals with linseed oil and keeping them from water.

Batatia, April 21. Tbe Dutch have abauddned five outposts in the Achenese country. Stubborn fighting bas been going on for some time, in which the Dutch lost 62 men and one gem. Washington, April 24. While driving ia the city to-day the horsea attaohed to President Cleveland's carriage took fright ab a motor oar and bolted. The carriage was smashed, bub the President escaped almost without injury. Ottawa, April 23. Parliament will be dissolved on Friday, and the elections take place in Jane.

Lord and Lady Aberdeen wero out driving near tbe city, when their horses fell into a waterhole and were drowned. The Governor-general with difficulty rescued hit wife.