GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 94, 14 August 1896, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN

London, August 13,

A commercial expedition from Blackburn, Lancashire, is about to visit China with a view to the development of the cotton trade. The present intention is that the expedition shall remain there for ji period of three years. The Vaccination . Committee approves the system of vaccination, but suggests that it should not be insisted upon in cases where parents object. The dynamitard. Daly, has been released on account of ill-health.

An official receiver lias been appointed to deal with the English assets of the Chaffey Brothers' estate, with power to visit Australia. Li Hung Chang will visit Canada. Anarchy is said to virtually prevail outside the French lines in Madagascar, and the lives of Europeans twenty miles from the capital are unsafe. The Natives have Burned many churches within the last few months. Capetown, August ly. Mr Cecil Rhodes says the Matafaeßr war is virtually over. Teheran, August 13. The assassin of the late Shah has been executed. Berlin, August 18. Herr Libenthal, a German, who invented a flying machine, was killed by a fall of his machine in the city. Cairo, August 18. Seven steamers have reached the second cataract on the Nile.