GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. [Per Press A**>j<:ittti«n.—Ct>L»jriijht.) London, Hay 29. Mr Barney Barnato, the South African millionaire, who has been seriously ill, is recovering. The Agents-General are preparing an elaborate scheme for the illumination of their offices on the three Jubilee nights. The South Australian loan averaged £97 13s Bd. At the sales of sheepskins the competition was fair for long-woolled classes, which sold at par to oneeighth of a penny advance and shortshorn at from par to one eight of a penny decline. The Rev. George Douglas Halford, vicar of St. Peter's Jarrow, has been appointed warden of the Western District Mission at Longreach, Queensland. May 30. The Daily Chronicle fund in aid of wounded Greeks has closed. £IO,OOO •ifefijiubscribed. belonging to H.M.S. Collingwood capsized in Bautry Bay, Ireland. Six petty officers were drowned. Bebijx, May 30. The Sultan has presented the Emperor with a battery of six cannon captured from the Greeks. Paris, May 80. The Senate has passed through committee a bill largely reforming the system of criminal trial. Rome, May SO. Aeciarto, the political fanatic, who attempted to stab King Humbert the races at Rome in April last, w sentenced to penal servitude foe life.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 335, 31 May 1897, Page 3
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