LATE CABLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9713, 10 April 1899, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Received April 10, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, April 0. The Barbadocs sugar planters hava rejected Sir T. J. Liptou's offer to purchase tho canes at 10s nor ton for crushing at the central factory. They suggested legislation on the lines of tfio Queensland Sugar Works Act. The engagment of Earl Shaftesbury and Lady Constance Sidell Grosvenor, eldest daughter of tho late Earl of Grosvenor, is announced. A chemical analyst has assured Mr Valentine, tho expert for colonial products, that the use of formaline for the preservation of fruit pulp is unnecessary, and moreover injurious. Tho British Board of Trade retuni3 show that tho Marnh imports decreased ■£1,920,000, and the exports increased .£1,490,000 compared with March of tha rpevious year. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, has Enilcd for America on his return to Austiiilia. American papers stato that England paid 125,000 dollars for Tonga. WASHINGTON, April 9. Kansytiivi, a member of the Chinese Council of State, who was compelled to lleo from Pokin for supporting reforms promulgated l>y (ho Emperor, has arlived at British Columtiin.