GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 437, 28 September 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

(Per Press Association.—Cop>jri>jht.) London, Sept. 2G. The Federation of Employers in the engineering trade declares that its policy with regard to the demands of the workmen remains unaltered. A race for the 220 yards amateur championship was swum at the Corporation Baths, Nottingham. Percy Cavill and Hellings, the two Australians, entered, but withdrew. Tyers won, defeating Derbyshire by three yards in 2miii 89 4-sth see. Sept. 27. Renter's Cairo correspondent states that the Khalifa has massed 35,000 troops at Onidurman, and is constructing entrenchments. It is not likely that the Egy plain troops will advance against Omdurman until they have been augmented by the British. Cape Town, Sept. 27. Owing to the ravages of the rinderpest cattle are so scarce at Salisbury, capital of Mashonaland. that "salted" or pestproof oxen fetch £35 each. Antwerp, Sept. 27. The British residents here protest against their compulsory enrolment as members of the Civil Guards. Berlin, Sept. 27. The Cologne Gazette states that it is the intention of the German Government to gradually reconstruct the navy by the appropriation of sixty million marks yearly until 1005. Sydney, Sept. 27. A man named White has been found dead near Deepwater. Several slugs aud pieces of rock were embedded in the body, from which it is supposed that a bullet from his own ritie struck a rock and the splinters rebounded, killing him.