GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 175, 19 November 1896, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. London. Nov. 17. A detachment of the Riile Brigade, with artillery, has been ordered to Rhodesia. General Hutton, ex-Commander of the New South Wales forces, is announced to give a lecture at Aldershot to his comrades 011 Greater Britain. The Duke of Counaught will preside. The town of Canada, in Crete, is placarded with appeals to the Moslem population inciting them to proclaim a holy war. The Daily Telegraph says Elvera, daughter of Don Carlos, King of Portugal, has eloped with Count Folehi, an Italian paiuter, carrying with her £'12,000 worth of jewels. The British railway men have demanded that the hours of labor for guards and brakesmen be limited to ten hours per day and shuntei '#Jght hours. Mr Jerome Dyer read a paper at the Colonial Institute on Victorian industries. In the discussion which followed Sir W. V. Percival said the Government ought to improve the methods for the distribution of produce. Cmko, Nov. 18. Eight judges, Frenchman German, Italian, Russian, Greek, and three natives, are hearing an appeal in Alexandria against an Egyptian mixed tribunal which held that the use of the C'aisse do Cadette funds for expenses in the Soudan expedition was illegal. The English judge will not take part in the proceedings.