GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 240, 6 February 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN

( Pi'/' P/V.S* Aw-iiitioit.—(Jiijii/fii/ht / London, Feb. *l. At the wool sales a moderate selection was offered, and competition was quiet. The Board of Trade Inquiry into the Orotava disaster absolved the owners and the chief and second officers from blame, but did not hold the second engineer entirely blameless. Reports from San Francicso statethat Butler was a sailor at Hull in 1802, and had been working between England and Australia. Feb. 5. The Mansion House Indian Famine Relief fund now amounts to £215,000. The steamer Duke of Buckingham outward bound to Rrisbane put back damaged, having be<-n in collision with an unknown v< -< 1. Mr T. A. Brassey has given i'l ,000 to the Indian Famine Relief Fund. Tokio, Feb. 1. The .sentence of death passed on Mrs Care'.v for poisoning her husband has been commuted to penal servitude for life. CoNSTANTINOI'I.K, Fob. 2. The Foreign Embassies have completed the seheme- of reforms in Turkey. The chief proposals will be submitted to the Porte. Washington, Feb. 1, Report- from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, state that objections have been raised to the Anglo-American Treaty, as it is feared it will imply a North American protectorate over Venezuela. pAitis, l i b. 5. A Bill providing for the increase of the sugar bounties has passed the Chamber of 1 >«-puti. The majority in favor of th>- Rill wa- a narrow one.