GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 358, 28 June 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

f Per Press Assoeiation.—(.'nj>>/ri<flit. / London, June 26. The Duke and Duchess of York will visit Ireland in August. The llaxim-Nordenfeldt Guns Ammunition Company entertained a large party of colonial soldiers at lunch. The guest were afterwards tnken to the ranges at Eynswood and shown the working of the guns. The Queen reviewed 1500 firemen at Windsor and the Eton boys made a torchlight procession to the castle. Obituary—Alice Linguard, actress ; Mrs Oliphant, authoress. Mr We?therby, secretary of the Newmarket racecourse, has promised to make a trial of Grey's Australian starting machine on the Newmarket racecourse. Berlin, June 27. Baron von Bulow, Ambassador at Rome, will probably succeed Prince Hohenlohe as German Imperial Chancellor in September. Madrid, June 26. Senor Sagasta has issued a manifesto to the nation, in which he urges the granting of autonomy to Cuba. He censures General Weyler's ruthless destruction of property on the island. Cairo, June 26. Captain Challin's Belgain column, after a severe engagement., succeeded in expelling the Dervishes from Red jap, the only fortified place in equatorial Africa. Pretoria, June 26. At a banquet given by the Uitlanders in the Rand General Joubert and the burgher members of the Executive were present. The burghers in the course of their speeches said President Ivruger was keenly alive to the importance of preserving the peace, and that favorable winds had dispersed recent menacing clouds. Calcutta, June 25. Detectives are inquiring into the attacks made on the plague officials at Bombay, who were severely wounded, and 20,000 rupees reward has been offered. Hong Ivong, June 27. A number of Chinese miners with Australian experience are being sent to the Gold Coast at that colony's expense to prospect for minerals.