BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 3940, 29 June 1889, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

♦ ♦♦ ■ [per press association.] London, Jane 26. Mr Cbilders intends to pay a visit to India and Australia in the autumn. The Land Transfer Bill-%as passed its third reading in the House of Lords by a narrow majority. Mr Thomas Seaton, M P. for Belfast, is being examined by the Commission. He refuted Le Caron's statement that he assisted Brennan to escape to America. Witness said that he was unable to account for the missing funds of the League. The mutilated body of a woman has been found in the Thames, slashed about in the same way as Jack the Ripper's victims. It is supposed he has reappeared. The infernal machine discovered at Madame Tussaud's was sent to the establishment in a box. Suspicion was aroused, and the police sent, for. They removed the bottom of the box, and found that the machine was arranged to explode when the lid was opened. No clue has been obtained.

June 27. At the Times-Parnell Commission today, Mr T. Sexton, M.P. for Belfast Wes,t, deposed that boycotting was a necessary evil. Mr Timothy Harrington, M.P. for Dublin, denied giving O'Connor informers moaey to intimidate voters. Chief Justice Hannen condemned Harrington's evading instead of answering the questions put to him. Sir Henry James made an eloquent defence on behalf of Sir George Chetwyud, arguiug that he was unaware of the dishonesty of the jockeys Sherrard and Wood. M. Persico denies any fear of being murdered. England has declined to discuss the evacuation of Egypt, and the convention is broken off. Vienna, June 26. i Count Kalnoky says that the allies are firmly resolved to prevent war. Count Kalnoky, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the course of a speech, stated that in the event of France and Russia forcing on war, England and Turkey will join the Triple Alliance. Bucharest, June 26. A woman who was despatched from Zurich on a mission to dynamite the Czar has committed suicide here. St. Petersburg, June 24. The Czar publicly snubbed the Italian Ambassador here, on the ground of his having displayed German sympathies. The Russian Government has ordered torpedo boats to bs kept in constant readiness. j June 26. M. Garashini, the Minister for War, is arranging that the Russian Army be supplied with the Dew small calibre rifles made in France. Paris, June 27. The Finance Minister has stopped Boulanger's pensioD, who threatens to sue for it. Zanzibar, June 27. Dempopo's son has arrived at this place. He left a large caravan at Unyanyembi to await Tippo Tib. Cairo, June 27. A rising is reported at Novi Bazar.