BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10104, 1 August 1893, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

tsT SLBOTSIO TELMQUAPB-GOPS EIGHT.~] 1 [Spegial to Pasas Association.] LORD ONSLOW ON NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, July 30.

Lord Onslow, speaking at the Suffolk Colonial College, said that New Zealand required men, furnished with a small amount of capital, who were willing and able to work upon the land. NEW SOUTH WALES. Jolt 81. The Times considers that Sir G. B, Bibbs’ proposal to abolish the payment of members of the New South Wades Parliament is a significant reaction to mob rule. The paper praises his financial proposals, which it believes are the outcome of his recent visit to England, and states that assigning definite souiroes of revenue for the paypaent of interest on the public debt gives the only guarantee satisfactory to English lenders. Xt adds that the wealth of the Colony is unquestionable, and that in railways Australia has propetty of increasing value. A SOUTH AMBEIOAN REVOLUTION.

BUENOS AYRES, July 30.

A revolution has broken out in tbe Province of San Luis. The rebels attacked the barracks, captured the Governor and Ministers, and appointed a Radical Government. The revolution in San Luis and Eoaavrio is an outbreak on the part of the Radicals, who, after severe fighting at many points, are gaining the upper hand. Inflamed by their success, the whole countrv is rising. FLOODS. CALCUTTA, July 31.

Serious floods have been experienced in Cashmere, and Srinagar, one of the capitals near the centre of the Vale of Cashmere, is half destroyed, NICARAGUA/ WASHINGTON, Jolt 31;

News has been received that in the capture of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, the rebels lost 6000 killed.