BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10308, 29 March 1894, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[BY ELMOTBIO TSLSSBAPE^OOPTMIffET.I [Spbcxai. to Peess Association.] re-elected. LONDON, March 27. Mr E. 0. ||unro Ferguson, on becoming Secretary to the Treasury, has been re-elected member for Leith, though with a reduced majority of 612. Mr T. Shaw, who succeeds Mr Asher as Solicitor-General for Scotland, was re-elected for Hawick Burghs by a majority of 647. FRENCH SPIES. French agents are trying to secure plans of the new works being carried on at Gibraltar. the tower bridge. The Tower Bridge is completed. GOOD CONFERENCE, The Good Templars’ Conference has opened. A hearty welcome was extended to the Australian delegates. Mr Malings, the president, said that the New South Wales lodges had been a tower of strength in making members of Parliament Good Templars. ESMB RULE. March 28. Colonel Se&Jiderson addressed a meeting of twenty thousand Ulster men at Lurgan. He was received with great enthusiasm, and a resolution was passed declaring that those present would never submit to Home Rule. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. VIENNA, March 27. The Emperor will meet the Emperor of Germany at Abazia on Thursday to rearrange the Triple Alliance expiring in 1897. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. March 28. Kossuth’s son will take an oath of allegiance to the Emperor of Austria. KOSSUTH’S DEATH. ROME, March 27. Kossuth’s family have communicated with King Humbert thanking him for his message of condolence. ALLEGED CANNIBALISM. A priest of Allaire, in France, has reported to the Vatican that slaves are extensively marketed in some villages of Abango, in Africa, and killed, their joints being selected for food beforehand. CONSTRUCTION OF FORTS. With a view to reduce the outlay, Government has suspended the construction of new forts on the Austrian and Swiss frontiers. BECHUANALAND. CAPETOWN, March 27. The Afrikander Bund has aasem« bled, and the Imperial Government will be asked to annex Bechuanaland. * A STATEMENT DISCREDITED. March 28. An inquiry instituted by Sir H. Loch throws discredit upon the statement that the two troopers lately arrested robbed a messenger sent by Lo Bsngula. THE SILVER QUESTION. MEXICO, March 27. The Government has decided to call a silver convention of bi-metallic nations in the autumn. The United States will send delegates. A REPUBLIC DEMANDED. March 27. The Socialists“demand the establishment of a Republic, THE UNITED STATES AND HAWAII. WASHINGTON, March 27. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations denies that Government intends to improve Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Admiral Warker baa been appointed to counteract British intrigues in favour of the Queen of Hawaii. THE SEIGNIORAGE COINAGE BILL. The New York World declares that the President has drafted a message vetoing the Seigniorage Coinage Bill. THE BEHRING SEA FISHERIES. Sir Julian? Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, is arranging a new modus vivendi respecting the Behring Sea Fisheries.