BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10315, 6 April 1894, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

]SY BLBCTSW TBLSGSAPU^COPYIiWST.'} [Special to Panes Association.] ATHLETIC AND SOCIAL CLUB. LONDON, April 4. At the inaugural dinner of the London-Australasiaa Athletic and Social Club, one hundred guesta were present, including the Agents-General of tho various Colonies. THE LONDON DOCKS FIRE. April 5. Tho fire at the wool warehouse in the London docks destroyed wool to the value or over .£20,000. Messrs Dalgety and Co. and the Banks of New South Wales and New Zealand are the principal losers. SUB HENRY LOCH. Sir Henry Loch has left Capetown for England. THE ANARCHISTS. ' PAEIS, April 5. A bomb explodedHu the Cato Foyat, opposite tho Senate building. Several people were injured. A SURPRISE. News has been received that a French force was surprised and defeated by the natives at Usapu, in the Soudan, many on both sides being killed. RUSSIA AND GERMANY. BERLIN, April 4. The Czar has decorated Count von Capnvi, the German Chancellor, with the Order of St Andrew. GREAT FIRE IN SHANGHAI. HONGKONG, April 4. By a fire in Shanghai a thousand houses were destroyed. A ROYAL MEETING, COPENHAGEN, April 4. King Christian baa invited the Czar and tho Emperor of Germany to meet him bare in July. THE BEHRING SEA. QUESTION. WASHINGTON, April 4. The Senate baa passed tho Behring Sea Fisheries Bill. LIQUOR RIOTS. The Governor of South Carolina declares that he will enforce the law at all hazards. THE SILVER QUESTION. April 5. The House of Eenresentatives

adopted Senator Bland’s motion to pass the seigniorage coinage proposals over President Cleveland’s veto, hut the required two-thirds majority was not secured.