GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 488, 29 November 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

{Per Press Association. —Copyright.) London, Nov. 27. Stratton, the New Zealand swimmer, easily defeated Hunt, the champion of London, at the Polytechnic Club in a 50 yards race. The body of Miss Arbuthnot, entombed through an accident in the Alps 30 years ago, has been recovered. M. Lole, editor of a native paper published at Satara, in the BombayPresidency, was found guilty of seditious writing and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Sir "William Vernon Harcourt, speaking at Kirkcaldie, ridiculed the projected increase of the army, and protested against the policy of the Government on the Indian frontier. Nov. 28. Sturrock, who was arrested at Melbourne, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for embezzling moneys of the British Linen Company's Bank, Kilmarnock. Mr Labouchere has obtained an injunction restraining Henry Hess, editor of the South African Critic, from publishing Mr Labouchere's letters to the late George Augustus Sala. The cotton operatives, who agreed to submit the question of a reduction of wages to arbitration, have rejected the terms of arbitration proposed by the employers, and have given notice to go on strike on Dec. 13. Altogether 50 commissioned and 200 non-commissioned officers have been sent out to West Africa to command 4000 troops in the Lagos hinterland. Athens, Nov. 28. Th» Cretan Assembly has decided to oißeihse a force of 1500 gendarmes, gjjpl'i |i*oiTiplain of the delay of the r&meK in not putting the scheme of autonomy for the island in force. Constantinople, Nov. 28. Turkey, in defiance of the warning from Russia, has ordered 150 Krupp cannon. Vienna, Nov. 28. After his expulsion in the Reichsrath, Wolff returned and was immediately arrested, gagged, and taken to gaol-