British and Foreign News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 177, 21 November 1896, Page 4

British and Foreign News.

The Canadian Senate has negatived a motion to abolish intoxii-ating lienors from the Senate iv-itaurant, Imt decided to coniinc t!i:- use of tin: restaurant to Senator.-;, Members of the lions;' of Commons, since the prohibition in the Commons wing, have boon using the Senate restaurant. The ile;itli is announced of Mr Maunington Cail'yn. the husband of •• lot;!,'' the popular authoress, whose novel, '' A Yellow Aster," created a good deal of sensation some f'.-w years years ago. Mr Caftyn was himself a writer of merit and a surgeon of considerable position, whose experience extended over two continent-;. The Swiss people oil Oct. 1 voted on three- new measures. The I'aihvay Account Bill. which is to precede the nationalisation of the railways, was agreed to bv 'll s.OOO votes to ITo.OUO. The Cattle Tratlic Bill was rejected by a small majority, and tho Military Discipline Bill by an overwhelming majority. The "Madagascar correspondent of the Paris Temps reports that the exQueen, dressed in mourning for her hu.sband, who uied at Algiers, lias

been seandali«ing the Ilovas by being carried in a chair with only two attendants and without the famous red parasol to tii." French Residency. Her mission wsh to apologise to Mine. Laroche, the Residents wife, for her ; i-t t. who, being, as usual, in toxical (1, insulted and struck her in the course of a visit paid by Mine. Laroche to the Palace. Captain Dupsat, a French orderly officer, had some difficulty in rescuing Mine. Laroche from the grip of her assailant. The Queen, who had asked for a fabulous sum, is to be allowed 10Q,000f. a year, with r.0.000f. for her attendants and musicians. It is semi-officially announced that the treaty Powers contemplate the appointment of I)r. Raffel, now assessor of the German Government in Dare-es-Salaam, as successor to Herr Schmidt, hitherto Municipal President of Apia. Dr. Rall'el was in 1895 nominated to a Judgeship in German East Africa after having been employed for some years in the Foreign Office. He is stated to be a capable official of con siderable experience. A libel action brought by Senor Piosch, formerly Mayor of Madrid and afterwards Minister of Public Works, against the Marquis do Cabrinana, who charged the members of the Municipal Council with corruption, has resulted in the Marquis's acquittal. The Times correspondent at Sinla savs that the National Congress leaders ha\e for years complained that the Arms Act is quite unnecessary in the older provinces, and that the people cannot protect themselves .against wild animal-. Yet even in Dengal the Lieut. muit-Governor has had to order the cancelling of all licenses in the 1 lakarganj district owing to an epidemic of murder, in six months 50 murders have been reported, 11 being committed with guns. That year 78 murders occurred. The Manitoba, Cabinet has approved a basis of settlement- of the schools question which is satisfactory to the Dominion Government. The principle of national schools is not to be violated. The proposed settlement will provide for voluntary religious instruction in the schools by clergy of the different Churches after the close of the regular school exercises, and the appointment of a fair proportion of Catholic teachers in those teachers in which a considerable proportion of Catholic children are taught. Sunday, 20th September, being the anniversary of the Rattle of Alma, the Royal dinner-party at Balmoral was invested with rather more ceremony than usual, for the Queen on that day drinks the toast, '• To the glorious immortal memory of the blessed dead who fell lighting for me and my country on the heights of the Alma on the '2oth Sept., IKyl." This is followed by '• Ling live the gallant survivors.'' Doth toasts are drunk in champagne. The Queen, however, merely puts her lips to her glass, as she is forbidden champagne by her doctor. It would, observes an English paper, be interesting to know what would have happened if the Tzar's visit had included iiOlh September. A crematorium was opened by Lord Derby at Liverpool on September 11.