ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9959, 8 April 1895, Page 4

ENGLAND.

(Received April 7, 6 p.m. London, April 6. Shares in the West Australian Midland Kallway Company have been allotted. Lord FingaU'a telegram re the Bboob of gold in the Londonderry miae giving out) was received on April lßt, bnt owing to the absence of the directors the news was not published until the sth, though shares began to fall on the 2nd. Colonel North offers to deposit iv the hands of trnsbees cash and vendors' shires equal to the amonnt of his net profits, the shareholders receiving the income until the company has earned 10 per cent on the capital for two years. He hopes that the other vendors will take similar action. ' The papers consider the Colonel's offer a very fair one, and that the London ' directors throughout) have acted in good faith. Owing to the attitude adopted by the Ulster members the Irish Land Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons without division. For the month of March the imports have increased £653,000, and the exports £424,000. The Bngliah Press generally regard M. Hanotanx's explanation in the French Chamber of Deputies respecting the Niger and Upper Jtile very unsatisfactory, and a virtual defiance to England. Oscar Wilde publishes a letter stating that he abandoned his cisc in order to avoid placing Lord Douglas iv the witness box. After the warrant had been issued for Wilde's arrest the police detained three essential witnesses. Lord Douglas and two men remained in conference with Wilde at the Viaduct Hotel, Holborn, for several hours nf ter the trial, and they lunched together in a piivate room. Subsequently they drove tt the Bank, where Wilde withdrew a large sum of money. He was then lost sight of until he was arrested in the eveniug at an hotel in Sloane-street. Lord iJonglas wa9 much distressed when he found he was unable to ball him out. After" the trial the the Marquis of Qieensbsrry sent) Wilde a message stating that be woiild shoot him if he took his son abroad. Taylor has also been arrested, and will bs charged io conjunction with Wilde. The latter's name has bßen withdrawn froni the playbills of London and American theatres. (Received April 8, 12.15 a.inJ A company has been projected hereto take over the Great Western vinej'ards i Q Viotorla. Lord Halifax and Cardinal Va'.'ghan have left on a visit to Home, nnd It I s supposed that their mission la to promote <r the union of the Church of England O^d the Koman Catholic Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a strongly worded letter, declares that such a uiiioii is impossible, The Court has sanctioned the redaction of the capital of the New Zealand and River Plate Company by £200,000. The final ronnd ot Kagby Union games was played to-day between England and Scotland, the former winning by threo goals. An influential meeting of City men, including Baron Welby, formerly Secretary to the Treaanry, and Baron Farrer of Abinger, formerly Permauent Secretary to the Board of Trade, and several bankers, was held to-day, when a committee was appointed to resist any alteration in the monetary standard.