CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8519, 10 April 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

(By Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Assooiation.> LonDok, April 8. The shares in the Royal Oak Gold Mining Company, Hauraki, have been allotted. Tha praprietor of Fair Play haa be6n fined .£SO and costs for contempt of court for publishing a paragraph, concerning a case still sub judice. The Strike Conference asked the Board of Trade to appoint a trustee to hold money as a guarantee pending the execution of the awards. Subsequently both sides agreed to withdraw the old demands, the employers accepting the principle of machinery piecework, while the strikers will not insist on higher wages for clicters, and ae;ree to place no restriction on country workmen. The Time 3 considers that the revenue returns of the Australian colonies indicate a financial revival, and aa approach of better times.

April 9. It is rumored that Lord Kensington has been offered the succession to Lord Kintore.

London. April 8. The warrant for the 'arrest of Osoar Wilde vray issued at the instance of the Treasury.

Although Wilde's name has been removed from the playbills, companies continue to play hU pieces for the present. Wilds, in his letter to the press explaining his reason for Abandoning the case, states that he is -willing to bear ignominy in order to aroid calling Lord Alfred Douglas to give evidence against his father, bat says ihe son was eager and quite willing to enter the box. Washington, April 8. In reply te an application by Preiident Cleveland, the Supreme Court holds that the Constitution prevents the levying of the income tax.