GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 84, 3 August 1896, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. London, July 31. The Coal Miners' Board of Conciliation has lapsed. The employers desire to reduce the wages, and the men insist that they shall remain unaltered. Under these circumstances it was found difficult to make a new agreement. The House of Lords, without division, read a second time the Irish Land Bill, but some amendments are likely to be made in committee. Mr Warren, a lieutenant on the Hermoine, formerly on the Nelson and Curacoa, was drowned during the naval manoeuvres in attempting to rescue an engineer who attempted suicide. The House of Commons has passed the third reading of a bill encouraging light railways in the agricultural districts. The House of Lords has passed the Friendly Societies Bill. The Congress of the World's Socialist Workers has carried a demand for nationalisation, and the Anarchists have withdrawn. August 1. The British Medical Association has decided that the memorandum of association shall he so altered as to enable them to employ their funds in the defence of such of their members as may be proceeded against in the law courts. Oil the petition of a number of M.P.'s the Home Secretary has decided to treat Dr Jameson and his officers as first-class misdemeanants. The Czar and Czarina will visit Paris next month, and will then probably cross over to Britain and stay ■with the Queen at Osborne. August 2. The Uganda Railway Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Commons. John Erskine, of New Zealand, has *on the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship. In the cycling contest between England and Australia, the Home team won easily. Megson received an ovation for his plucky riding. Berlin , August 2. Baron Schroder, agent for the German East Africa Company, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for brutality to natives. Perth, August 2. A ire afe Nantes dock has done damage to the extent of a million. The French Socialists workers demand universal free education, including the universities, and favor a tribunal of arbitration for the settlement disputes. Brussels, August 2. Six hundred men have been thrown oat at Mono owing to the increase in the cost of labor. Vienna, August 2. A band of 36 Creations have been tried for a series of murders and robberies. Nineteen were found guilty and condemned to death, and ten to long terms of penal servitude.