ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 June 1897, Page 3

ENGLAND.

London. June 1. At the Queen's Birthday levee yesterday the attendanco nnmbered 600, a Dumber hitherto nnequalled, Wray, the Amtrallan uonller nofr \n England, and who has ohalfetrgoS 'Gau« daur to row for the championship of the world, haa alao challenged George Towns, another Australian who recently left for England, to row on the Tyne In July. A ohe«B match by oable 'a belns ptotyed , between a team sele^'ood fcoai members of the House of Oommona and another from the Amor'^an 3ouee of Kepreienta« lives. Ea<",a ride have won ono game, Meanßgas reoordlng each move occulted 40 BBConds In ttanamlsoloci. In the Houbo of Comtnons, Cv leply to « question, the Right Eon. iS. Chnmberlaln eatd that the Canadian Government irere fully »atU£ed aa tD the oampetancy •Of Mesira Petetaen and Company to owry ont the oontracb for the lunagniatlon of & rfait Atlantic atoam servioe. At the military tournament the Erblj ttancera defeated the New Sontb Wal^e ILasoetß In wrestling on tiornubaok. The ZCimes remarks that the Anotrallana mould have Btood a hotter ohanoe of winning if they understood the latitude allowed by the rales of the contest. la the Hoaao of Commons, In committee on the Employers' Liability BUI, Mr MscLenn, M.P. for Cardiff, moved Ihe omission of coalmlnera from the clause of the bill providing for the pay* ment of compensation, for acoldenta to workmen. Mr Chamberlain said the fears of the ooalmlne owners were greatly exaggerated, end in no case was the burden placid on the owners equal bo that on th 3 colliery proprietors of Germany. The amendment was withdrawn.