GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. 1 Per Press Association.—Copyright K London, July 7. Obituary—Sir John Bennett, sheriff of London. The employers have served notices of a lock-out upon 25,000 engineers. The lock-out affects Woolwich, Bolton, Clyde, Sunderland, Leicester, and the north-east coast. The Queen has expressed pride and entire satisfaction over the Jubilee naval review at Spithead. Colonel Herberts has reported that the conduct of the colonial troops has been exemplary during their stay at Cheslsea. Gaudaur, who last year won the sculling championship of the world from Stausbury, has now expressed his willingness to row Wray, the New South Wales sculler, on the Thames, for £SOO aside. Paris, July 7. Floods in the south of France have caused damage estimated at 200,000,000 francs, while 300 people were drowned. Cairo, July 6. Sir H. Kitchener, Sircar of the Egyptian forces, has left Cairo for the front, preparatory to advancing with the Anglo-Egyptian expedition against the Dervishes upon Abu Hamed on the Upper Nile.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 367, 8 July 1897, Page 3
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