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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 3

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881 TI >H AN D FO LtEIGN

It is reported that Great Britain has ar ranged with Franoe in regard to Zanzibar.

The Emperor of Germany iv addressing the workmen at Krupp'a manufactory at E^sen, in Rhenish Prussia, announced tbat ha intended to persevere with his labor policy.

A petition presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the shareholders in the Panama Oanal Company asking that proceedings be instituted against the directors of the oompany has been referred to the Minister of ...

British owners refuse to close the lobster factories established on the French shore of Newfoundland.

, Russia threaten! to adopt ulterior measures -Unless the idemnity due by Turkey is promptly paid. She declines to wait for -payment until November. The cyclone in Illinois, "United States* lilted a school at Pawpawa into the air, and the bodies of many of the scholars were afterwards found in a oreek in the vicinity. The telegraph lines were destroyed, and at least 1 100 persons were killed or injured,

A correspondent of the 'New York Herald' states that 200 Newfoundlanders "ifod'Frenohmen came to blows at Port-au-Pont.,- They fought with clubs, oars, and boathooks, and namerous broken bones were' ihe result. - The Frenchmen, who were in the minority, got the worst of it.

The African colonial press denounce the Agreement arrived at between England and •Germany over the East African question. They describe Zanzibar as the key to Africa. M. Ribot, in the Frenoh Chamber of Deputies, said that according to the Berlin Convention it waa necessary for Great Britain to arrange with France previons to taking action in East Africa.

It is asserted tbat the inhabitants of Heligoland are opposed to the island being ceded to Germany.

Major Wissman, who bas been in oharge of the German operations at Zanzibar, received a warm welcome on his arrival at Berlin. He considers the settlement agreed to between Germany and Eagland in regard to East Africa isa deathblow to Germany in Africa.

In responding to an address presented to him signed by 30 000 Barliners, Prinoe Bis Ittarok declared it was impossible*) for him to become a dumb dog, and tie claimed the righ'' to speak in the interest ol peace even if he gtoO 1 alone.

It is reported th*t the Radian B ack 8* aqua-iron will make a demonstration in Turktii water* to prevent oompliaaoe with the Bal^ari»u Note dem >n lint; the recognition of jPri-ice F- r Üband by the P ,rtei. ! Balg-ria^ will repudiate th« sovereignty '.of - I'n'riiey \ 'Unless Prince F^r.lioand \ is recognised. „..-.; At tha annual dinner of Qaeenslanders in London the chairman said tbat the prohibition of colored labor in the colony was killing the' sugar industry, and the result was; a jdemand for separation. Sif^G. Bowen said " the deliberate judgment of the people must little the question of separation. The success •of Aastralasian federation would advance the oanse of Imperial federation, and the next Operation woold be to dtmand npmMitotten

on t'.e Imp. ria. C .uncil with equivalt-n fiuanoi.i r-«p nsibili "-S. Ond sp-aker sail the •ecu.!, *tv nio which was K ,v,n t " Q l«e"8---l.i.d ff ir- a. H.me was the cause of tho d-HNaUsr c im. Top cession of Heligoland, line that of Eas eru New Guinea, showed how E.nj'and advauo d her own interest re^ardlesß of the o 1 -vies H* ls-> oond. mued the black looks o st oo the Q leeosland statesmen for daring to oi'ject to a oertain Governor.

Government adhere to the firat ol«nse of the Lio^nsiug Bill ffi mmg the priuoiple of compensation, aod intend to persevere with the suspension of licenses. Mr W. S. Came, the Liberal unionist Whip, will resign, and contest Barrow-in-Furness in order to test th« feeling of elf otora. A petition, five miles long, in favor of compensation to publicans is bAmti presented to Parliament. It bears 600.000 signatures. A Procedure Committee has been appointed.

Half the town of Port France, an island of Martinique, has been burnt down, rendering 5000 people homeless.

News has been received thatthe President of San Salvador, Central America, has died suddenly during a banquet. Io the panic consequent on his decease, the soldiers killed a general and other officers before order was restored.

A revolutionary movement in Mexico is being promoted by American agitators.

The anti-slavery conference has been fruitless in consequence of Holland refusing to agree to the Congo Free State raising revenue by means of import duties.