SECOND EDITION. LATEST NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 794, 20 June 1893, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. LATEST NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. (per press association.) London, June 19. Judge Williams has authorised the re-openihg 'of the Australian Joint Stock Bank on the London directors giving Mr Stewart, official ■' receiver, ■ a receipt for the assets. The Bank of Victoria and the Oommeicial Banking Company of Sydney have re-opened, and are paying many drafts, otherwise business is. quiet. . The Australians won the toss from the Players and went in first, but were all out for 189. Jarvis, Coningham, and the 3 r oung;er Giffen are standing out, Blackham having recovered sufficiently to resume his place at the wicket. Shrewsbury is unable to play and Chatterton is substituted for him. The Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth to day. Her frozen meat is reported to be in good condition. Mr G. W. Balfour moved an amendment to the Home Rule Bill preventing legislation on matters affecting life and property unless in accordance with Imperial precedent. The Government accepted the proposal. Mr Sexton demanded that its terms should be made less absolute, but . was but-voted by a majority of 180. Thereupon Mr Sexton said these fatuous attempts to conciliate men who only wanted to w^reck the Bill were 'alienating the ' Irish members. Further whittling would simply destroy the scheme. The, Conservative press is jubilant at the turn affairs have taken over the Home Eule Bill. It is reported that Mr Sexton "believes the measure to be doomed. The Daily Chronicle says the Irish 'members are entirely justified in their complaints against the Government policy in receiving important amendments. The Dublin Independent considers that Mr Gladstone Has received a serious warning. .., .-•■ The Berlin correspondent of the Daily ' News, wiring with regard to the German' elections, declares that it is now impossible that the opponents of the Army Bill can obtain a majority. Mr James Tims, a member of the London County Council, who is seoretary of the Radical Federation League, ha.s been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to defraud .a railway company of the value, of a ticket. Mr Join Deasy, M.P. for Mayo West, haa been" summoned to answer a charge of having assaulted a female' servant, in his employ. Capetown, June 19. The Eimutuka sailed to-day for I Hobart abd Port Chalmers. . Roue, June 19. The P and 0 steamer Sutlej ran into and' sank a yacht at Malta, two officers of the Epyal Engineers being drowned. ' ■ . .Constantinople, June 19. •Seventeen Armenians, inoluding two Professors of Marsboan College, have been sentenced to death for rioting at Anogora. Washington, June 19. The Queen of Hawaii officially states that, she will abdicate the throne and accept a pension from the American Government. A ' ' "' Pakis, June 19. The additional warships proposed in the French estimates include three line of battle ships of eleven thousand tons, and nineteen torpedo boats. ' „ '/ Berlin, June 19. Up to the present .50 Conservatives, 81 of the Centre Party, and '24 ' Socialists have been elected. Count Herdert Bismarck and Herr Bebel are among those elected, but Herr Lune, the author of the modified Army Bill,' has been defeated.