HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10384, 29 June 1899, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE QUEENSLAND DINNER. LONDON, June 28. At the annual Queensland dinner, .Sir H. Toster, who presided, said he believed Great Britain would yield to the wish of Canada and Australia in regard to the Pacific eafaJe. Sir Julian Salamons, Agent-General for New South Wale3, said he-hoped that next year there would only* be one 'dinner— namely, Australian—to hear one speaker respond for the Commonwealth. AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. PARIS, June 28. The Chamber of Deputies, by 379 votes to 70, refused to deal, as a question of urgency, with M.. Deroulede's proposal to abolish the Senate and elect the President by universal suffrage. CLOSING OF TIN PLATE WORKS. NEW YORK, June 27. The tip. plate works in Pittsburg are being closed, owing to the employers and employees failing to arrive at an agreement in regard to wages, and fifty thousaind workers have been thrown idle. RIOTING IN SPAIN. -MADRID, June 27. Serious riots, arising from the increase of taxes, have occurred at Saragossa. During the fighting Marshal Borbon was wounded. Martial law has been proclaimed. RIOTOUS CHINESE MINERS. SHANGHAI, June 27. Riotous miners in the Elongate Yamen Province looted the Customs House and French Consulate.