HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8541, 22 July 1893, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE. London, July 20. Tbe Earl of Jersey has been offered the Chairmanship of the Agricultural Conference. CHOLERA. A case of cholera imported from Marseilles is reported in Cardiff.

QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK.

A letter in the Daily News bitterly complains of the Queensland National Bank paying the Government fully at the expense of the shareholders,

NARROW ESCAPE FOR MR GLAD-

STONE.

A carriage iv which Mr Gladstone was driving in through Parliament Square collided with a van, but the Premier suffered no injury. He was warmly congratulated by members on his narrow escape.

a New zealander at bisley.

At the Rifle Association meeting at Bisley, Lieutenant Kennedy, of Napier, New Zealand, scored 83 in the first stage of the aggregate for the Queen's Prize, and will probably be included in the first 300, who are qualified to file iv the final stage for the trophy.

SIS CHARLES DILKE.

Paris, July 20,

Sir Charles Dilke, in an interview with the representative of La Figaro, said he foresaw no difficulty with respect to Siam, unless France attempted annexation. Speaking of the dispute in Newfoundland he said there was great cause for anxiety. RE-CONSTRUCTION SCHEME APPROVED. At a meeting of shareholders of the New South Wales Mortgage Loan and Agency Company i the scheme propounded by the Directors for re-oon-Struct was approved. Mr Alexander MoArthur, oue of the Directors, addressing the meeting, declares that British capitalists would soon be as ready as ever to invest in Australia. REFRIGERATING SIORES AT MALTA* A capitalist named Agins has decided to open refrigerating stores in Malta in which to store Australiam meat for military purposes. CHANNEL TUNNEL. July 21. The Channel Tunnel Bill has been withdrawn. THE RUSSIAN MARCH ON £NTDIA. St. Petersburg, July.2o. -Several leading Russians have equipped an expedition, to be under the command of Colonel Yanoff, for an eight months' stay in the Pamirs, with the intention of permanently possessing the couutry. The expedition will have instructions to establish military stations on the road to India, commanding the Baroghil Pass. The advance will be further than that made in 1891. Military stations are to be established at Sarhad and Wakham. YELLOW FEVER AT SANTOS. Rio- de Janeiro, July 20. During the mouth of June the death rate from yellow fever at Santos was 200 per day. A large number of bodies were never buried, and corpses were to be seen floating in the river. Forty-five sailing vessels were lying idle, the captains of nearly half of them having succumbed to the epidemic.

SERVIAN POLITICS. Belgrade, July 20,

The Skuptschina has passed a resolution impeaching a number of ex-Miuisters for bringing the country to the verge of a civil war.

THE SILVER CRISIS.

New York, July 20.

The panic in Denver city over the silver crisis is subsiding. Altogether eight Banks and nine mercantile houses have failed-.

NATIVE RISING IN MASHONALAND.

Capetown. July 20.

A serious rising is reported among the natives in the vicinity of Fort Victoria, and the whites are retiring to the latter place to defend it against the rising of King Lobengula, of Matabeleland. A later telegram, however, contains the reassuring intelligence that King Lobsngula is not unfriendly towards the whites.