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Evening Post, Volume XLII, Issue 125, 23 November 1891, Page 2

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BISHOP SELWYN'S HEALTH. ME. CHAMBESLAIN AND MR. GLADSTONE. A BOLD BID FOB i! 5000. PROTECTION AND NEW SOUTH WALES. BLACKMAILING WOMEN. ENGLISH POLITICS. BALMACEDA'S~VINANCING. THE M'KINLEY TARIFF. EDISON'S LATEST. N.Z. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. / ! SPECIAL. | (Received November 23, 8 a.m.) London, 21st November London landlords, in the guise of ratepayers, are setting up a hostile agitation against the Sohool Boards and County Council. Bishop Selwyn is about on orutohea, and is making slow recovery. Mr. Chamberlain denioß Mr. Gladstone's accusation that he is a renegade, and at the same time accuses the latter of having abandoned his party. St. Petersburg, 21st November. A brigand entered a train near Moscow, killed the postmen, and stole .£5OOO. In consequence of the export of wheat being prohibited, 5000 dookers in Warsaw have been thrown out of employment. (Received November 23, 10.45 a.m.) London. 22nd November. Dalziel's News Agenoy has been fioatod into a company with a oapital of £100,000. ' St. Petersburg, 21st November. Persecution of Jews has ceased, and immigration into Russia is resuming its normal proportions. (Received November 23, 10.55 a.m.) London, 22nd Novembor. A memorial has been published in favour of abolishing Greok at the Cambridge University, but it is not likely tho authorities will take any action on it, as tho ViceChancellor points out that the samo proposal was before the Council lately and was negatived. The fear of a protective tariff being adopted in New South Wales is causing a glut of shipping to that colony. Various lines of steamers are being largely supported. Grant, a Dane, has boon found guilty of blackmailing various titled ladiea in England by threatening to murder them. Sentence was deferred. ThoDaily News challenges tho Unionists to openly merge with tho Tories. Lord Hartington contends tho Unionist majority will bo maintained at the genoral election. Lord Herscholl considors it impossible for tho Houbo of Lords to go on without somo roform being introduced. (Received November 23, 11 a.m.) New York, 22nd November. A despatch to the World says it is intended to sue Balmaceda's Cabinet and Congress individually for the sum of nine millions, tho raising of which was illegally authorised by them. (Received November 23, 11.15 a.m.) Washington. 21st Novomber. Major M'Kinley, speaking at a banquet, asserted that America's best foreign trado was done during the years in which there had been a Protection tariff. Exchanges with Europe showed that tho purchases of the latter wore twenty - four millions in excess. Edison has invented an oleotrio looomotive, which he claims will developo one horsepower with one or two pounds of inferior ooal, and can be safely worked up to a Bpeed of a hundred miles per hour. Hongkong, 21st Novembor. Tho situation in China is improving. London. 22nd November. It is proposed to erect Birmingham into a Bishopric. Paris, 21st November. A debate in tho Senate on the tariff was opened by M. Laoour, who argued that it would have the effect of isolating France. M. Dauphin urged that gates should not be left open to foreign countries whioh were closed against Franco. A CLERGYMAN SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. LOSS OI 1 A PILOT BRIG. | UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | (Received November 23, 10.10 a.m.) London, 14th November. The Rev. Dr. Cluttorbuok was sentenced at Bath to four years' penal servitude for obtaining .£16,000 by false pretenoes. Tho marriage of Sir S. Wilson's son with Lady Churchill, daughter of the former Duke of Marlborougli, took place yesterday. The ceremony, which wasof a brilliant oharaoter, was attended by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, H.R.H the Duke of Cambridge, the Prinoess of Teck and many other society notables. The Prince of Wales presented the bride witth a diamond brooch. St. Petersburg, 21st November. The statement is officially pnblishod that there is sufficient grain in Russia to suffice for the neods of the country till next harvest. In order to recoup the farmers for losses causod by the prohibition of the export of wheat and rye tho Government will grant them sixty million roubles out of cash reserves, whioh now amount to two hundred and twenty millions. Calcutta, 21st November. The Indian pilot brig Coleroon has been lost with a crew of five Europeans and thirty-nine natives.