GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 171, 14 November 1896, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. Lmni>on. Nov. 18. The Earl of Lonsdale, speaking at Whitehaven. saitl he was authorised to state that the Kaiser's telegram to President Kroger, which caused so roach ferment in England, was not meant in a spirit of antagonism to England or to the Engbsh. He had also the Kaiser s authority to state that Oom Paul had actually asked for assistance from Germany agtinst I>r Jameson, and the Emperor had refused. Sir -John Gorst says it is necessary to adopt either state aid for all schools without discrimination or create local authority to distribute a grant to all necessitous schools. The Telegraph denies the report thin Transvaal has demanded a million indemnity from the British South African Company. The Anglo - American agreement stipulates that the Venezuelan arbitration shall be finished by Feb. 0. The Niger Company is engaging officers to assist the Empror of Lokoto to repel the Arabs, who have threatened an attack on Kano. Berlin, Nov. 18. The Reichstag has been asked to vole seventy million marks for the Navy, which is double the amount asked for last year. Washington, Nov. 13. There is a tremendous revival of trade in the United States, which iweakemng the advocacy for a revision of the tariff. Romk, Nov. 12. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing. Cairo, Nov. 12. Hartm%n, one of the Khalifa s spies, has been arrested at Suakini. He states that Austrian officers are fortifying Omdurraan on European plans. Paris, Nov. 18. The Chamber of Deputies has approved the adoption of the Greenwich meridian, thus abolishing the present Paris time. La Temps says America's claims for absolute supremacy in the Western Hemisphere is a serious derogation to the rights of Europe. The Radical-" in the French Chamber attacked the Premier for allowing a congress of priests to meet at Rheims, but the Chamber, by a majority of 97, passed a vote of confidence in the Government.