GENERAL NEWS.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA. THE WOOL SALES. THE lIUMBER CYCLE WORKS DESTROYED. STATUE TO ROBERT BURNS. London'. July 18. .Lord Salisbury has informed the House of Lords that the arbitration scheme between Great Britain and America, embracing the \ enezuelan dispute, was progressing satisfactorily. At the wool sales the selection is only medium, but the competition is bow the strongest of the series at the highest rates. : The Hlimbed 'cycle works, including machinery, at 'Coventry, have been destroyed by fiye. The damage is estimated at £IOO,OOO. At the Sandow n meeting the Eclipse Stakes was won I>y St. Frusquin. with Eegrei » 1 md Troon third. The Ho U*. of Iymls has passed the Agriculture R Bill. I July 10.
The Poet La*vreate unveiled the statue of Robert Viuras in Ayrshire yesterday. ? The Pope has ordered the Catholics in the House of Commons to vote against the Deceased ON ife Sisters Bill. Cardinal Vaoghan h»s conveyed this order to the Catholic M.P.'s. Washington, July 10. Since the holding of fye Democratic Con tn 01 Chicago valuks have fallen in lork heavily. 1
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Hastings Standard, Issue 72, 20 July 1896, Page 3
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181GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 72, 20 July 1896, Page 3
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