Tlie X’. it O. Company is making strenuous effort* to retain tlio export buttoi trade, iiml Ims invoked the assist ance of several well-known agents who have hitherto financed the factories. As a coutor-movo the Aberdeen and Lund s lines have agreed to make the necessary ad vances to tlie producers on their ship anenta, thereby taking tlio risk of tho cargoes they curry. SrDNF.r, April 21. Tho agents huvo raised tho price of butter Id per lb.
CABLE FLASHES.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 20.
Tho Opposition will move tho rejection of tho Voluntary Schools Bill, introduced in ths House of Commons by Sir John Oorst. Tho Times says it is Government pur chases on behalf of tho Post OJHco that .have inflated consols to their present high pitch (112), and that under tho circum stances it is unfair to treat them as tho standard of values. The Financial Nows advises this creditors of certain Australian hanks to accept a moderate scaling down of tho rates of in torout. They will, it flays, bo glad in the end if prudent counsels prevail now. Beiiliw, April 20. It is reported that tho Government has decided to repurchase from tho Gorman Now Guinea Company its territory in Now Guinea for half a million marks. Vienna, April 20. _ Dr Lnoger, leader of tho Anti-Semitic Party, has bom ro-eleoted Mayor of Vienna. When lie vm previously elected tho Emperor refused his sanction to tho election, and tho government of tho city ■was placed in tho hands of a Commission. Received April 22, ].W a.m. London, April *l. Consols are now quoted at 113 j . Lisbon, April 20.
A wealthy gentleman and his coachman have been killed in tho city by tlio explo sion of a dynamite bomb.
