GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.') London, June 2. Practising at Bisley for the first stage of the Queen's prize, the Victorian team averaged 92. The remainder of the teams and the New South Wales Lancers have arrived, and are quartered at Chelsea barracks. * June 3. M. Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, says France is convinced that without reforms in the Transvaal French interests in the Rand will be seriously endangered. Paris, June 3. The Government is asking the Chambers of Deputies to vote a million francs for the purposes of secret service. The amount shows a large increase on the sum hitherto voted. New York, June 3. Two steamers laden with wheat have been sent from America fortfee relief of the famine districts in Ifidia.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 339, 4 June 1897, Page 2
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131GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 339, 4 June 1897, Page 2
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