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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 3

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BEITISH AND FOREIGN,

Thirteen deatha from cholera are reported at Paebla, Spain. la Madrid the cholera is decreasing.

Mount Shasta, the famous peak in the north of California, over 13,000 ft in height, has vanished. The catastrophe is attributed to volcanic agency.

Smallpox is prevalent in Egypt. France is issuing a 3 percent, loan of seven hundred million francs (£23,000,000).

The local taxation proposals of the Government were only carried in the House of Commons by am»j >rity of four. Mr W. H. Smith declares it was a anatch vote.

A Bulgarian Note forwarded to the Sultan makes a final appeal to Turkey to sanction the election of Prince Ferdinand to the throne of Bulgaria.

Tne Finance Committee of the United States Senate has reported on M'Kinley'u Tariff Bill with only slight changes in the duty on wool.

Under the Civil list of pension grants, Mrs Blanohard (better known in Dunedin as Mrs Ailpenny) has been granted a pension in consideration of her services as worker on behalf of the emigration of women to New Zealand.

The New Zaaland Agricultural Company have extended she time for the payment of debentures for five years.

Tae Marquis of Salisbury has complained to Portugal of thelabter's violating the statui quo in the Shag district by massing troops on the banks of the Kuo river.

The Sb. Petersburg correspondent of the 1 Chronicle ' telegraphs that the Czvr haa sanctioned a Franco- Russian alliance to balanot) the Anglo-German agreement.

Tbe licensing clauses in the local taxation proposals of the Government will probably be withdrawn.

4 The Economist ' predicts a further fall in tbe price of wools at the third serieß, wbioh open on Tuesday next, as it considern that the market is unprepared to absorb 400,000 bales without abatement in price;

A Bntiflt; wars iip has again ordered the clobingof Baird's lobster factory in S. George's B >y. B-tird refuses to do so unless force is applied.

Crowds of Jaw 3 are being expelled fr. m the western provinces of Russia, and seeking refuge in Auat'ia.

Toe French Government decline to discuss the queeti >n of the disposal of tbe Egyptian conversion surplus until England has fixed the date of the evacuation of E ypt, and thus compel the levying of a French tax.

Tbe King of Dahomey is suing for peace.

A cyclone passed over the S.ate of Illinois wrecking many of the towus and villages. Thirty persons were killed, aud numbers injured.