GENERAL NEWS.
■»- EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. (IVr /'/ess A*s"< i<iti<<)i. —L'opijri'ilit.) London, July 9. During the progress of a ball given by the Queen at Buckingham Palace an outbreak of fire caused great excitement. The arriving carriages were stopped, and the firemen quickly extinguished the flames. A force of Niger police under the command of Lieutenant Carroll (a Queenslander) defeated 500 of the King of Benin's force, and captured the tG\vn where the King had taken refuge, but the lattar twice effected his escape. Lieutenant Fitzgerald, of the attacking force, was killed. \Y. Barry has challenged Towns, the Newcastle sculler, to row for £2OO aside and the championship of the world. St. Petersburg, July 10. Koraliff, ooe of the leaders of the living burial movement in Russia has been interred in a convent.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 370, 12 July 1897, Page 3
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132GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 370, 12 July 1897, Page 3
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