GABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8757, 19 April 1890, Page 3

GABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

By Electric .Telegraph — United Press Association Copyright— Received 19,4190. 9.30 a.m.

ANOTHER BKiUAC 1 ! OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

Londox, April 17.

Miss Harris, a young danseuse, claims £5000 damages from Sir George Elliott for breach of promise of marriage.

BEDOOTION OF POSTAGE RATES. London, April IS.

Mr. Goschen is willing to reduce the postal rates to India and the Colonies by all the routes to twopence halfpenny, if the Colonies concur. By this reduction he estimates a los 3of £80,000.

THB BUDGET ESTIMATES.

The Budget estimated expenditure for the year is £80,857,000, leaving an available surplus of £3,549,000. The coinage fund has been restored, and a gold fund created, and credited with £600,000, arising from Mint profits on the circulation of silver. The duty on silver plate is to be remitted to the extent of £80,0* »0, and that on tea reduced to -id per pound, and on currants to 2s per cwt., as Greece is making important concessions with resppct to the latter article. The house duty is reduced by £540,000, and there are several minor reductions. The duty on British and foreign spirits has been increased Cd per gallon, which, with the additional -beer duty imposed last year, will be handed to the local authorities.

KKLEASE OP CONSTANCE KB^TT.

Constance Kent, wlio was sentenced to death in 18l>5, and subsequently commuted to imprisonment for life, on a charge of murdering her brother, four years old, at Road, near Frome, Somerset, has been released. At the time of the murder Constance Kent was 16 years of age ; she is now 41 years old.

VICTORIAN LOAV.

One syndicate has applied for three and a-half millions of the Victorian loan.

DBATH OF AN EXPLORER.

Obituary — Mackay, the African explorer.

WEBTKRKT AUBTRALIA.

In giving evidence before the Committee on the Western Australia Bill, Sir F. N. Broome, late Governor, said the colonists would reject the Bill if the south-west portion of the country were specially reserved for Imperial emigration jmrposes. Sir T. C. Campbell concurred in this opinion.

(.'SHEAS DIV >R X &CTI N

The rumour that Mr O'Shea's divorce action has been settled is denied. Mr Parnell has filed an answer to the allegations making him co-respondent. The hearing of the action has been fixed for July.

EVICTIONS INIR'L'ND.

A number of English delegates from members of the House of Commons have gone over to Ireland to witness the evictions on the Ponsonby estate. Troops have been massed to assist the officers of the law in ejecting the tenants.

STANLEY'S AT A'K OV EMI^.

It is stated that the Germans are bitter at Stanley's reported attacks on Emm, and that letters sent to Stanley in Africa have been intercepted by them. EGYPTIAN COSVEKHIO^FCHKMH!. \ Paris, April 18. Messrs. Tigrino and Palmer, financial advisers lo the Egyptian Government, who were recently appointed by the Khedhe delegates to the French Government, have had a favorable interview with M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Ail'airs, relative to the conversion Echeme. LABOUR mSM'WSTRATIO*. The organifors of the labour demonstration in Paris deprecate holding a jtrocession, and advice that tx holiday jnceting should be held instead. PLOT DISCOVERED I* PARIS. Tt ji* etfttwl tJwt at the limy »f llic

female spy stole Boul anger's plans which lie had drawn up in the event of that official's arreest leading to an outbreak of war with Germany.

PUHMDE^T CVRMOTM TOUB.

President Oarnot has started on a tour to Toulon and through Corsica. PORTUGUESE EXPKDITION RECALLED Lishon, April 18.

The Governor of Mozambique has been directed to recall the Portuguese expedition on Mpondo, if it has started.

UifIUMAN FKJfivriEU'-* BPKKCIH.

Bkkmx, Aj>ril 18.

Von Caprivi, in a speech delivered before the Prussian Diet, said he had nothing new to expound, and quoted the Emperor's saying, that " the course of the ship of State would not be changed." Ilia colleagues would have greater elbow room than was possible in the presence of Bismarck's potent personality. Ministers would reconsider projects which had previously been rejected, and accept any good proposal from whatever quarter it came. Tho new Chancellor was warmly applauded at the conclusion of his speech, and the leaders of tho various political jiartios promised him their assistance.

BI 'MAr-CK AN" CAPRIVI

It is understood that Bismarck is friendly to his successor, but reserves the right to criticise.

THE PRESS

Von Caprivi has forbidden the practice of " inspiring the press."

MONUMENT TO BISMARCK j^The Emperor has accepted the pos'tiou of patron to the Bismarck monument fund . The ex-Chancellor, in a general letter of thanks, alluded to his dismissal.

OCi A LI«T HOLIDAY.

The German Socialists recommend that a holiday should be observed whereover feasible, and expresses a desire to avoid any conflict with the authorities.

ASOTIIE3 ROY^ MARRI\GK.

Vienna, April 18.

Princess Valeric, the youngest child of tho Emperor of Austria, is to be married to the Archduke Francis in July.

RUSSIAN PAL\OB BURNT,

St. Petersburg, April 17

The Czar's small palace at Finland lias been destroyed by fire. Seven persons were killed by the frilling clebris.