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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1029, 13 April 1894, Page 6

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•» The division on Mr D dziel's motion in favor of Home Rule for Scotland was a party vote, though the Government left the question open. Mr Balfour tidiculed the motion. The Welsh members intend to move an amendment to Sir G. 0. Trevelyan's amendment, that bills affecting Scotland be referred to a grand committee of Scotch members, providing that a similar privilege be granted to Wales. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the Admiralty's complete programme is contracts for the construction of 120 ships in six years. These include 10 first-class and three second-class battleships, six first-class and 27 second-class cruisers,' and 64 torpedo destroyers. A bomb exploded in the Cafe Foyer opposite the Senate building. Seveial people were injured. The Freemasons in the Argentine have appealed to the Prince of Wales, President Cleveland, the King of Portugal, and President Peixoto on behalf of the Brazilian refugees. By a fire in Shanghai 1000 houses were destroyed. The fire afc the wool warehouse in London docks destroyed wool to the value of over L 20,000. Messrs Dalgety and Co. and the Banks of New South Wales and New Zealand are the principal losers. During a squall near Ajaccio, in Corsica, the French warship Neptune, with Admiral Bauden on board, narrowly escaped meeting the same fate as H.M.S. Victoria. She collided with another vessel under similar circumstances to the Victoria-Camperdown affair, but the contact was very slight and no damage of any consequence resulted. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, whose sight is impaired through a cataract, will undergo an operation in June. The ship Wellington, which left Picton for London on May 12, but had to put into Rio de Janeiro en route to repair severe damage sustained through a collision with an iceberg, has arrived at London. The East London Water .Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of one. Ministers opposed the measure. The secession of the Parnelliies and the Healy section is seriously weakening the Government in connection wifch the debate on the scheme for a Scotch Grand Committee. A committee has been set up to euquire into the working of the Irish Land Acts. The agent in Buenos Ayres for the Paraguay Central Railway Company, writing on March 18, reports that 80 seceders from the New Australia settlement have gone to President Gonzalez colony, where they are quite satisfied with their prospects, and the new settlement appears to be flourishing. Fifteen German officers have been dismissed from the service for gambling A fierce conflict took place in Oklahoma between bands of Indians and cowboys. Many were killed on both sides. A shaft collapsed in a, mine in Bres lav, 11 persons being killed and alarge number injured. Scotfc, the missing witness in the Ardlamont murder case, has surrendered to the police. He informed the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette that in order to put an end to his existence as an outlaw he went to Scotland Yard, but in the absence of a warrant the inspector refused to take him into custody. It is believed in Paris that the bomb which exploded in the Cafe Foyer on the 4th was to have been placed in the Senate building, but the explosion took place prematurely. A number of guests in the cafe were injured, including Maillaide, an Anarchist poet. Forty arrests have been made in connection with the outrage. At the meeting of the Bank of Australasia the chairman said the institution had more money than ifc could profitably invest. In the course of his remarks he dealt on the extraordinary vitality and soundness of Australian commerce, and alluded to the complete success that had attended the reconstruction schemes of the various banks that had suspended during the recent financial crisis. He said the losses in Melbourne had absorbed half the profits. The defection of the Parnellites is causing the Government serious anxiety. The Radical members are much incensed at the Chancellor of the Exchequer claiming private members' time for the whole of the session. Dissension is said to be increasing among the followers of Mr Justin M'Carthy. A section of the Cabinet is resenting the pressure being brough*: on fche Government by Ministerial factions. Owing to Western Australia making no response to the Salvation Army's proposal to establish an over-sea colony there, General Booth now contemplates j setting it up in Paraguay, from the Government of which country, it is said, he has received encouragement. Mr Garrard, solicitor, of Evesham, has failed with liabilities amounting to I L 300,000. J The English press assert that the "Argentine Government are opposed to ( the extradition of Jabez Balfour toi

London, on the ground thafc ifc is illegal. The Brazilian rebel squadron has forced an entrance into Rio Grande Harbor. A plot has been discovered in Liege (Belgium) to destroy fche public build : ings by dynamite, A number of bombs were seized. The King of Italy and the Emperor of Germany had a brilliant reception at their meeting in Venice. In response to the demands of the crowd tbey appeared on the balcony of the palace and bowed their acknowledgment. The sum of LSOOO was stolen from the counter of South Payne's Bank New York. The Watkins Land Company of Arkansas has suspended payment, with liabilities amounting to nearly six million dollars. It is reported that Great Britain retains Uganda, and thafc affairs will be administered locally. I Mr Arthur Harold, of Adelaide, is forming an assets company, with a capital of a million, to purchase' fche properties of the reconstructed banks in Australia, Owing to the exclusion of importers from the lobbies of the Hungarian House of Parliament;, fche press in the city have boycotted the proceedings of the Assembly, and declined to publish reports of the speeches of members, In toasting the health of the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Germany saicl that their br.sfc friend was a united trust in the brotherhood of arms. The Russian deficit amounts to thirteen millions. \ Admiral Mello's forces exploded the citadel at Santa Borga, the whole of the garrison being killed. Seven thousand quarters of Australian wheat for prompt shipment were sold afc 25s 4-|d per quarter. Dowes's protected bullet proof cuirass has been subjected to a test. The inventor submitted himself, and was shot . at but felt nothing. A horse similarly protected was not hurt. King Humbert assured a representative of Le Figaro of the profound sympathy that Italy felt towards France, which would be manifested some day. Italy, he said, complained of the French tariff. The three Emperors and himself wished peace. The King and Queen of Italy visited Her Majesty Queen Victoria on Sunday. During their meeting at Venice the Emperor of Germany told King Hum berfc of Italy to reduce the country's military expenses without entailing any loss of prestigp. The Hungarian Assembly has yielded to the demands of the press, and reporters are again admitted to the lobbies of the House. ' A fireworks factory at Petersburg, in Virginia, exploded, ancl the debris afterwards caught, fire. The explosion and conflagration resulted in the loss of 12 lives. A hotel and theatre in Milwaukee were destroyed by fire, and 16 persons were killed. The estimated damage is half a million dollars.