GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 156, 27 October 1896, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

EIn'.PKAN AND FOUF.IGN. Lonijox, Oft. 20. The Mary k bone Cricket Clnb has postpone} dealing with the proposed alteration of the follow on rule until the opinion of the* Australian cricket a associations on the subject lias been d. Bishop Temple, cf London, has been appointed to succeed I >r. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury. Madame M ikt has cancelled all her summer engagements for Convent Garden owing to the acceptance of a brilliant offer to sing in Brazil. Obituary—Albert Sassoou, Indian banker. The city express surprise at the appointment of Dr Temple as Archbishop of C; t nt» rb uy and mildly approve it. The Daily News considers it a dangerous experiment. Shvnohu, Oct. 2(5. Japan has obtained land concessions in Tientsin, Shanghai, Hankow, and Amoy, in return for which she modifies her right to establish factories in China. Sr. Petersbvf.is, Oct. 26. An epidemic of malarial fever of a terrible malignant type is still raging at Merv. The death rate from the plague within the last few months numbers 80,000 persons. The greater number of the victims were Turcomans, but a large number of Russian soldiers mast be included in the list. Constantinople, Oct. 26. The levying of taxes is causing immense excitement throughout Turkey, and the Powers, fearing further trouble, have advised the Porte to ceas«> levying them. The Christians are greatly alarmed. Capetown, Oct 2(i. Colonel Pin:timer's force which was operating against the Matalvle has been disbanded. Paris. Oct. 20. The French Government has increased the sugar bounties to ten millions so as to enable exporters to successfully compete with Germany and Austria. Vh:nnv. October 20. A revelation by Count Bismarck, to the effect that a liusso-Gcrman benevolent neutrality treaty existed from JHHI to 1890 until Count C'aprivi denounced it, has startled Vienna. The impression prevails in the city that Bismark was preparing to break the Triple Alliance by force of anus and arrange a Husso-France-German coalition against England.