GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. London, August 4. The Standard says that Mr William Lawies Jackson, Secretary for Ireland in the last Salisbury Government, has been offered the presidency of the committee to inquire into the Chartered Company. Lord Vaux represents England in the appeal against the acquittal of Major Lothaire. Unless Gaudaur agrees to-morrow to row Stanbury on September 7th the match will be declared off. Berlin, August 4. The heat is intense in Eastern Prussia, and eighteen deaths from sunstroke were recorded in Konigsberg in one day. Lisbon, August 4. Owing to a strike of employees at the gasworks, the town has been in almost total darkness for two nights Madrid, AugusfeHU The Government have failed to plete the purchase of warships m Genoa, and are now negotiating with the Clyde shipbuilders for the construction of vessels. Cairo, August 4. Heavy rain has fallen at Akosheh, which 13 the first for nine years, and the wells were filled. The steamers have succeeded in passing the second cataract. The Dervishes are fortifying Ketman, above ttw third cataract.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 86, 5 August 1896, Page 2
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178GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 86, 5 August 1896, Page 2
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