GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 235, 1 February 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. fVer Pjv.vv Jss:., ■ , London, Jan. 29A farmer has been arrested at Scarborough on a charge of having committed 17 forgeries in America for : stuns aggregating 1.000,000 dollars. Australian butter, fair business,prices unchanged. The cheese market is booming, and prices show an advance of 2s. The Mansion House Indian "famine relief fund amounts to £171,000. -Tan. 30. In the Cowley suit both Earl Cowley and Mrs Charrington denied adultery, but the Earl admitted two offences with other women. The jury found the charges not proved, and were discharged. In consequence of the Earl's admissions the Countess applied to amend the petition, and the hearing was adjourned. CoNSTANTISOPI-K, Jull. 2!). The Porte is uneasy at the approach of the Mabomedan fast of Ramadan, as religious riots are likely to occur. I1on<» Kono, Jan. 29. The bubonic plague has appeared at Formosa. Athens. Jan. 20. The University stu Int irritated because one of the prof or rebuked them for hindering an «i iit j», have broken into open revolt. I hey stoned the police, garrisoned the University, and established a cordon of armed sentries. January ".*>l. The students who rioted and garrisoned the University have now quitted the institution, and the rector has resigned his position. Wa:-hi\-i;t< n, Jan. 29. Senator Sbiimui. who is to be Secretary of St t*.- ;n the M'Kinley Cabinet has ad\i-< d the Senate to abandon Senator Morgan's Nicaragua Canal Bill, guarantt-«-ii)tr the Canal Company 100,000,000jdullars in :J per cent, bonds. lie intiina'.ed that after Mr M'Kinley enters uj-on the I'r. -i dency steps will be taken to .secure a treaty providing that the United Slat* - shall practically build the canal. Mr Sherman is confident that the Senate will approw the Anglo American Arbitration Treaty. Mr llyman Gage, a Chicago banker, has accepted the Secretary-hip of the Treasury in Mr M Kinley's Administration. Jan. al. Major McKniley ha- a pointed Senator Alger as Secretary for War. The Foreign Commit*.* .• «.f the S» - nate^has r«*cnm mended th>* r.iiifuMiii-'i of the Arbitration Treats with an amendulSit omitting Kii:.- aumpire, and excluding, t \t_> [ t by special agreement, all <]':r<-ti"n-- af't-et ing the foreign or dotm -tic j«»l:cy or relations of either country with other Powers. Messrs O'ney and Pau nee forte have signed the convention < ing to the appointment of a eoinim-.'-u ii to demarcate the Alaskan boundary. Pretoiu.v, Jan. iil. President KriL-t r, referring to the anxieties Chambtrlain a- t" affairs in the Transvaal, rt.markt.-d.—"Let Chamberlain statf i!» finitely that the promises made to the l*it£uidera have Dot fee«nk«pt."