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Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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DISTRESS IN GERMANY. BERLIN, Maboh 11. (Beeetved Maroh 12,1892. at 10.85 a.m.) The area of distress distriota in Germany is Increasing.

PROTECTING THE LABORERS. BRUSSELS, Maboh 11. The Belgian Government intend to institute a Connoil to protect the interests of the laboring classes. RECOGNISING THE WOMEN. PARIS, Maboh 11. The Chamber of Deputies has granted women workers power to vote npon the appointment of boards of arbitration, but declines to permit them to become members of suoh boards. HARBORING A RUNAWAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Mabch 11. Russia is protecting the man arrested on suspioion of being connected with the murder of Van Keovitob, a Bulgarian agent THE XERES AFFAIR. MADRID, Maboh 11. The Anarchists of Cadiz claim that the acquittal of the second batch of persons tried at Xeres was due to fear of the mob. Serious rioting took place during the trial, and many people were wounded by the polio?. CANADIAN MATTERS. OTTAWA, Maboh 11. M. Meroier declares that the public are ungrateful and unjust. The Canadian Government endorse Lord Salisbury's attitude with regard to the Behring Straits dispute, and have also declined the request of the United States to introduce a Chinese Exclusion Bill.

A SUCCESSFUL LOAN. LONDON, Maboh 11.

The loan floated by the Manchester Corporation to assist the Canal Company was subscribed three times over at an average of L 95 14s, The amount asked for was a million and a-half, at 3 per cent. The minimum was fixed at 94.

HEAVY SENTENCES. LONDON, Maecji 11.

G. W. Hastings, M.P. for East Worcestershire, was convicted of fraud as a trustee, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Morland, the blackmailing tutor, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.

MR SPURGEON'S SDCCESSOR. LONDON, Mabch 11. The Rev. Mr Pierson will officiate at the Tabernacle till June.

FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA. ZANZIBAR, Mabch 11. A correspondent of the 'Standard' says it is reported that the Natives have inflicted a severe defeat on the British East Afrioan Company's Sepoys under the command of Rogers at Witu, killing many of their number and capturing a Maxim gun. The Sepoys were greatly outnumbered. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, March 11. (Received March 12, 1892, at 11.30 a.m.) The Bank of England returns published show the total reserve to be L 16,820,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 44.12, Consols, 96. Three months' bills, lfj per cent. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock is at 103|; 3£ do, 93£. New Zealand long- berried wheat, 44s 9d ; market quiet. Lamb has risen £d, but frozen meat is otherwise unohanged. New Zealand hemp is in moderate demand. Common kinds have declined 15s ; superior sorts unchanged. Kauri gum is in fair demand. Inferior quality has declined, but well-scraped, selected sorts are firm, and fine pale is dear. For the latter Ll2 is the quotation; fine hard, Bcraped, L 8 10s. Adelaide wheat, 44s (quiet); Victorian, 43*.

German sugar, 14a 3d; Java ditto, 15a 9d (fiat). Chilian copper, L 45 ss; Straits tin, LB9 ss. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron (f.o.b. in the Clyde), 40a 7*d.