GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. (Pre P/v.s.s Association. —< 'op*/''i;//it.) London, Dec. 21. Professor Davidson has declined to accept the position of Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland on the ground of ill-health. The Times' American correspondent wires that the House is disposed to adopt a more pacific resolution regarding Cuba. Washington, Dec. 21. The "Jingoes" and some jurists challenge Mr Olney's claim that the Executive has sole control over the Cuban question. Bkklix, Dec. 21. The Austro - German preliminary Antarctic expedition leaves Melbourne in the summer and will winter in Victoria Land. If successful a- larger expedition will follow. The Kaiser has ordered the inquiry into the killing of a civilian by Lieutenant Brusewitz to be re-opened. The German newspapers complain that the Kaiser's views about the Hamburg strike are at variance with hits social decrees of 1890.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 203, 22 December 1896, Page 2
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139GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 203, 22 December 1896, Page 2
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